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Example 13-181
I ain gine worry a soul.
I
1sg
.
sbj
ain
neg
.
aux
gine
going
worry
worry
a
a
soul.
soul
I am not going to worry a soul.
Comment:
Gine
is a variant of
gwine
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 262
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative auxiliary verb
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