Value Reduced TAM marking in negated clauses

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking

Examples

  1. I didn't grow up like that [...] I wasn't grow up like that, my parents never grow us up like that, ain't none of us in gang violent.
    I
    1sg.sbj
    didn't
    neg.pst
    grow
    grow
    up
    up
    like
    like
    that
    that
    [...]
    [...]
    I
    1sg.sbj
    wasn't
    neg.pst
    grow
    grow
    up
    up
    like
    like
    that,
    that
    my
    my
    parents
    parents
    never
    neg
    grow
    grow
    us
    us
    up
    up
    like
    like
    that
    that
    [...].
    [...]
    I didn't grow up like that [...] my parents didn't bring us up like that [...].
  2. And - uh - after he die, I say, I ain't allow no man to do to me because my - my daddy ain't been in this world to beat me, so I ain't allow nobody to beat me. And when the teacher used to go - say the - I do wrong things, you know, when I do wrong things - I - uh - the teacher used to come and beat me.
    [...]
    [...]
    my
    my
    daddy
    daddy
    ain't
    neg
    been
    cop.pst
    in
    in
    this
    this
    world
    world
    [...]
    [...]
    so
    so
    I
    I
    ain't
    neg
    allow
    allow
    nobody
    indf
    to
    to
    beat
    beat
    me
    me
    [...]
    [...]
    [...] my father wasn’t in this world (anymore) to beat me, so I didn’t allow anyone else to beat me (either) [...]
  3. [Talking about her three children.] I never did want them. I try kill all of them. [...] Now I love them. Yeah.
    I
    1sg.sbj
    never
    neg
    did
    pst
    want
    want
    them.
    3pl.obj
    I never wanted them.
  4. I never had the chance - there ain't no shark around - that want bite.
    [...]
    [...]
    there
    there
    ain't
    neg
    no
    neg
    shark
    shark[pl]
    around
    around
    -
     
    that
    rel
    want
    want
    bite.
    bite
    [...] there weren't any sharks around that would have wanted to bite.
  5. Fish’man never call his own fish stink.
    Fish’man
    fisherman[gener]
    never
    neg
    call
    call
    his
    3sg.m.poss.det
    own
    own
    fish
    fish
    stink.
    stink
    A fisherman will never call his own fish smelly. OR: No one ever sees faults in anything connected with himself.

    See Glinton-Meicholas 1995: 115