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Example 9-186
Yu
neva
ivn̩ memba dat if a
neva
kum ya kum tɛl yu.
Yu
2sg
neva
ant
.
neg
ivn̩
even
memba
remember
dat
that
if
if
a
1sg
neva
ant
.
neg
kum
come
ya
here
kum
come
tɛl
tell
yu.
2sg
You would not even have remembered if I had not come to tell you.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1992
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative auxiliary verb
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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