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Example 5-16
afta mi groo an mi get lil mo big, mi - mi gu wee a wiiding dee
afta
after
mi
I
groo
grow
an
and
mi
I
get
get
lil
DEGREE
mo
more
big,
big
mi
I
-
mi
I
gu
go
wee
away
a
to
wiiding
weeding
dee
there
After I grew up and got a little bigger, I - I went away to the weeding gang.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 145 lines 328-329
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Order of degree word and adjective: Degree word precedes adjective
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