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Value Before the verb
Language:
Vincentian Creole
Parameter:
Position of standard negation
References
Prescod 2008
Examples
Mitch
na
a kaal.
Mitch
Mitch
na
neg
a
prog
kaal.
call
Mitch is not calling.
See
Prescod 2013+
: 6
Mitch mait
n
no.
Mitch
Mitch
mait-n
might-
neg
no.
know
Mitch mightn't know.
See
Prescod 2013+
: 6
Mitch
na
hafo no.
Mitch
Mitch
na
neg
ha-fo
have-for
no.
know
Mitch doesn’t have to know.
See
Prescod 2013+
: 6
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