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Example 6-105
Leah doh eat de food. Leah eh eat de food.
Leah
Leah
doh
neg
eat
eat
de
det
food.
food
Leah
Leah
eh
neg
eat
eat
de
det
food.
food
Leah does not eat the food. Leah didn't eat the food.
Comment:
doh < don't, eh < ain't
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Solomon 1993
: 71
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
by
Susanne Mühleisen
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative auxiliary verb
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