Value Two-way contrast

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Distance contrasts in demonstratives

Examples

  1. You see, they ain't like these young people these days, they don't want work nohow, not these day. You see, they ain't want work nohow. [...] Them days, when I was small, we want work. In these day - them days, these - they - they don't want work.
    [...] these days [...] these day [...] Them days [...].
    [...] dem day.pl [...] dem day [pl] [...] dem day.pl [...]
    [...] young people today, they don’t want to work [...] In those days, when I was small, we wanted to work [...].
  2. When I been home - I christen in that when I was - in 1916 I born. I christen in that church, and I been back home, and I used to look and I walk in the church ... I say, This the church I christen in. From a baby.
    [...]
    [...]
    in
    in
    that
    dem
    [...]
    [...]
    in
    in
    that
    dem
    church
    church
    [...].
    [...]
    This
    dem
    the
    art
    church
    church
    [...].
    [...]
    [...] I was christened in that [church] [...]. This is the church I was christened in [...].