Value Negative particle

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Negative morpheme types

Examples

  1. If I dead, tell them you don't kill me, tell them I eat poison barracuda.
    [...]
    [...]
    tell
    tell[imp]
    them
    3pl.obj
    you
    2sg.sbj
    don't
    neg
    kill
    kill
    me,
    me
    tell
    tell[imp]
    them
    3pl.obj
    I
    1sg.sbj
    eat
    eat[pfv]
    poison
    poison
    barracuda.
    barracuda
    [If I die,] tell them you didn't kill me, tell them I ate poisoned barracuda.
  2. Stone at sea bottom no know sun hot.
    Stone
    stone[pl]
    at
    at
    sea
    sea
    bottom
    bottom
    no
    neg
    know
    know
    sun
    sun
    hot.
    hot
    The rocks at the bottom of the sea don’t know that the sun is hot.

    See Holm and Shilling 1982: 143

  3. I ain't - I ain't exactly know what kind of work he used to do, but I think he used to work over there. But he retire.
    I
    1sg.sbj
    ain't
    neg
    -
     
    I
    1sg.sbj
    ain't
    neg
    exactly
    exactly
    know
    know
    [...].
    [...]
    I don’t exactly know [what kind of work he used to do] [...].