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Example 8-21
*A ihn tel lai pahn mi.
*A
foc
ihn
3sg
tel
tell
lai
lie
pahn
on
mi.
1sg
NOT: He is the one who told the lie about me.
Comment:
This example sentence is ungrammatical and so the translation is an intended reading.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: Only dependent subject forms
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