Value Verb fronted with a copy in the background clause

Language:
Jamaican
Parameter:
Verb doubling and focus

Examples

  1. A swel it swel, luk da. A bigfut dem gi mi.
    A
    foc
    swel
    swell
    it
    3sg
    swel,
    swell
    luk
    look
    da.
    there
    A
    foc
    bigfut
    bigfoot
    dem
    3pl
    gi
    give
    mi.
    1sg
    It really swelled up, look there. Someone caused me to have elephantiasis. OR: It really swelled up, look there. Someone gave me the bigfoot.

    See Patrick 2007: 138

  2. A tiif Piita tiif di yam.
    A
    foc
    tiif
    steal
    Piita
    Peter
    tiif
    steal
    di
    det
    yam.
    yam
    Steal the yam is what Peter did.