Value Passive without verbal coding

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Passive constructions

Examples

  1. Anyhow, they done christen - I glad that over.
    [...]
    [...]
    they
    3pl.sbj
    done
    compl
    christen
    christen
    [...].
    [...]
    [Anyhow,] they’ve been christened now [- I’m glad that that’s over].
  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.
    [...]
    [...]
    I
    1sg.sbj
    christen
    christen
    in
    in
    that
    dem
    [...]
    [...]
    I
    1sg.sbj
    christen
    christen
    in
    prep
    that
    dem
    church
    church
    [...]
    [...]
    This
    dem
    the
    art
    church
    church
    I
    1sg.sbj
    christen
    christen
    in.
    prep
    [...] I was christened in that [...] I was christened in that church [...] This is the church I was christened in.