Value Variable copula

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Predicative adjectives

Examples

  1. Some people black, some clear.
    Some
    det
    people
    people
    black,
    black
    some
    det
    clear.
    clear
    Some people are black, some are light-skinned.

    See Shilling 1978: 45

  2. This battery - this battery dead.
    [...]
    [...]
    this
    dem
    battery
    battery
    dead
    dead
    This battery has gone dead.
  3. I gotty tell you the truth, I is broke-broke. I even can't get battery [...].
    [...]
    [...]
    I
    1sg.sbj
    is
    cop
    broke~broke
    broke.red
    [...].
    [...]
    [...] I’m totally broke, [I can’t even get batteries] [...].