Value Before the verb

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Position of standard negation

Examples

  1. 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

  2. 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] [...].