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Example 5-38
wen di poor piipl dem go we, di puliismaan dem kech di maan dem a rood, an kyar dem
wen
when
di
def
.
art
poor
poor
piipl
people
dem
pl
go
go
we,
away
di
the
puliismaan
policeman
dem
pl
kech
catch
di
the
maan
man
dem
pl
a
on
rood,
road
an
and
kyar
carry
dem
them
When the poor people had dispersed, the policemen caught up with the guys on the road and carried them to lock them up.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 155 (line 487-8)
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Occurrence of nominal plural markers: Variable plural marking of human or inanimate nouns
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Identity
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