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Example 14-11
It was a nurse and a nurse's aid used to stand up at the door.
It
expl
was
was
a
a
nurse
nurse
and
and
a
a
nurse's
nurse's
aid
aid
used
used
to
to
stand
stand
up
up
at
at
the
the
door.
door
There was a nurse and a nurse's aid who used to stand up at the door.
Comment:
African American English has contact relatives, in which relative clauses are not introduced by a relative pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Green 2002
: 90
Language:
African American English
by
Lisa Green
cite
Datapoints:
Order of possessor and possessum: Possessor-possessum
Order of relative clause and noun: Relative clause follows noun
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