Datapoint Bahamian Creole/Definite articles

Values

Definite article distinct from demonstratives

Example 12-55:
I from the north. That is - Conch Sound, and there I was born.
I
I
from
from
the
def
north
north
[...]
[...]
I’m from the north (of a particular Out Island) [...]
Example 12-56:
First time I gone over - the first time I did gone off - let me tell you 'bout that. See, what happen, first in 1942, I work for the Royal Air Force. 1942 I work to the Royal Air Force Hospital. Yeah. And after 1942, then the Duke of Windsor gone aways to the - in the United State. He was acting government in the Bahamas. And after he see the condition of the people need a job, he gone over - oh, 'scuse me! He gone over and ... President Roosevelt and ax him if he could 'cruit some of the boys from here over there to work for the War Food Administration. And see, and I gone - I gone work for the War Food Administration.
[...]
[...]
the
def
first
first
time
time
[...].
[...]
[...] the first time [I went away] [...].
Example 12-57:
And when he come back, he see this - he didn't believe in this martial law.
[...]
[...]
he
he
see
see
this
dem
[...]
[...]
this
dem
martial
martial
law.
law
[And when he (i.e. the Duke of Windsor) came back and] saw this - he didn't believe in martial law.
Confidence:
Very certain