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Example 5-173
yu plee pon di greev self?
yu
2sg
plee
play
pon
on
di
def
.
art
greev
grave
self?
itself
You actually played on the grave?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 148, line 357
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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