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Example 5-25
an ii bigin fu sok dis bai
an
and
ii
3sg
bigin
begin
fu
to
sok
suck
dis
the
bai
boy
And she began to suck the boy.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 160 (line 495)
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: No gender distinctions
Expression of pronominal subjects: Obligatory pronoun words
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