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Example 8-50
Dat-de buk laas.
Dat-de
dem
-
dist
buk
book
laas.
lose
He lost that book.
Comment:
Dat-de
literally stands for [that-there].
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Pronominal and adnominal demonstratives: Different forms
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