Value No marking of patient NPs

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Marking of patient noun phrases

Examples

  1. Sometime like if a girl get pregnant, they ain't married, some is boil - like I hear people say they's boil like bush, like cerassee and different bush if they don't want them, that just kill the baby like that.
    [...]
    [...]
    they-'s
    3pl.sbj-hab
    boil
    boil
    like
    like
    bush
    bush
    [...]
    [...]
    that
    that
    just
    just
    kill
    kill
    the
    def
    baby
    baby
    like
    like
    that.
    that
    [...] they boil bush (medicine) [...] that kills the baby [...].
  2. I know 'bout s- three girls and something like that - like when they had they children, I hear them say they find one in the toil- one in the toilet, they find one in the front of somebody door, yeah. They find a baby mus'e just born to the front of somebody door, and they say one time again they find one like through the bush in the garbage.
    [...]
    [...]
    when
    when
    they
    3pl.sbj
    had
    had
    they
    3pl.poss
    children
    child.pl
    [...]
    [...]
    They
    3pl.sbj
    find
    found
    a
    a
    baby
    baby
    [...]
    [...]
    [...] when they had their children [...] they found a baby [...]