Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online

Value Subject-verb-object (SVO)

Language:

Bahamian Creole

Parameter:

Order of subject, object, and verb

Examples

1. And the mother count the fig - on the tree.

   And

   and

   the

   the

   mother

   mother

   count

   count[pfv]

   the

   the

   fig

   fig[pl]

   -

    

   on

   on

   the

   the

   tree.

   tree

   And the mother counted the figs on the tree.