Value Definite article distinct from demonstratives

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Definite articles

Examples

  1. I from the north. That is - Conch Sound, and there I was born.
    I
    I
    from
    from
    the
    def
    north
    north
    [...]
    [...]
    I’m from the north (of a particular Out Island) [...]
  2. First time I gone over - the first time I did gone off - let me tell you 'bout that. See, what happen, first in 1942, I work for the Royal Air Force. 1942 I work to the Royal Air Force Hospital. Yeah. And after 1942, then the Duke of Windsor gone aways to the - in the United State. He was acting government in the Bahamas. And after he see the condition of the people need a job, he gone over - oh, 'scuse me! He gone over and ... President Roosevelt and ax him if he could 'cruit some of the boys from here over there to work for the War Food Administration. And see, and I gone - I gone work for the War Food Administration.
    [...]
    [...]
    the
    def
    first
    first
    time
    time
    [...].
    [...]
    [...] the first time [I went away] [...].
  3. And when he come back, he see this - he didn't believe in this martial law.
    [...]
    [...]
    he
    he
    see
    see
    this
    dem
    [...]
    [...]
    this
    dem
    martial
    martial
    law.
    law
    [And when he (i.e. the Duke of Windsor) came back and] saw this - he didn't believe in martial law.