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Example 8-158
A tiif Piita tiif di yam.
A
foc
tiif
steal
Piita
Peter
tiif
steal
di
det
yam.
yam
Steal the yam is what Peter did.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Verb doubling and focus: Verb fronted with a copy in the background clause
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