Datapoint Bahamian Creole/Negation and indefinite pronouns

Values

Co-occurrence with predicate negation

Example 12-252:
People robbing people, you know, just like all kind of things. Ain't no - ain't nothing so special. Pettiness, you know.
[...]
[...]
ain't
neg
nothing
indf
so
so
special.
special
[..] That’s nothing special.
Example 12-253:
See, the government over the Bahamas then didn't know nothing, you know?
[...]
[...]
the
the
government
government
over
over
the
the
Bahamas
Bahamas
then
then
didn't
neg
know
know
nothing
indf
[...].
[...]
[...] the Bahamian government (back) then, they didn’t know anything [...].
Example 12-254:
Say ain't nobody who'll call theyself is fisherman can't swim.
[...]
[...]
ain't
neg
nobody
indf
who'll
who.fut
call
call
theyself
refl
is
cop
fisherman
fisherman
can't
mod.aux.neg
swim.
swim
There isn’t anyone who would call himself a fisherman and be unable to swim.
Example 12-255:
Well, see, after - the hurricane and - uh - it wasn't no vessel for us to move on, and it wasn't anything to do 'round home, you know?
[...]
[...]
it
3sg.n.sbj
wasn't
cop.pst.neg
anything
indf
to
to
do
do
'round
around
home
home
[...].
[...]
[...] [after the hurricane, there wasn’t any vessel for us to move on,] and there wasn’t anything to do at home [...].
Example 12-256:
Yeah, ain't nobody is bother me. Because they done know me, and I is be in the house all the time
[...]
[...]
ain't
neg
nobody
indf
is
hab
bother
bother
me.
me
[...] there isn’t anyone who bothers me (around here). [Because they know me, and I’m always in the house.]
Confidence:
Very certain