Value Preceding word

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Marking of pronominal possessors

Examples

  1. Because one day like - like - uh - my other son hats was on the line, hey, and they gone picking the hat, they try to stop me dry his clothes ...
    [...]
    [...]
    my
    1sg.poss.det
    other
    other
    son
    son[poss]
    hats
    hat.pl
    [...]
    [...]
    his
    3sg.poss
    clothes
    clothes
    [...]
    [...]
    [...] my other son’s hats [...] his clothes [...]
  2. Hold your bucket and walk along and pick it.
    [...]
    [...]
    your
    2sg.poss
    bucket
    bucket
    [...]
    [...]
    [...] your bucket [...]
  3. And then she fall right out, she hit her head so hard.
    [...]
    [...]
    she
    3sg.sbj
    hit
    hit[pfv]
    her
    3sg.f.poss
    head
    head
    so
    so
    hard.
    hard
    [...] she hit her head so hard.
  4. Yeah, with we grand - because, see, after this - after we mother dead, hey, after we mother dead - uh - like - like the welfare used to mind 'em, right? And all of the smaller set gone live with we granddaddy.
    [...]
    [...]
    with
    with
    we
    1pl
    grand-
    grand-
    [...]
    [...]
    after
    after
    we
    1pl
    mother
    mother
    dead
    dead
    [...]
    [...]
    with
    with
    we
    1pl
    granddaddy.
    granddaddy
    [...] with our grand- [...] after our mother had died [...] [the smaller children lived] with our grandfather.
  5. Talk - you know like - when you been to Andros long, they talk like dragging they voice and things like that.
    [...]
    [...]
    dragging
    drag.prog
    they
    3pl
    voice
    voice
    [...]
    [...]
    [...] dragging their voice [...]