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Datapoint Bahamian Creole/Co-occurrence of demonstrative and definite article

Example 12-63:: Them days, when I was small, we want work. In these day - them days, these - they - they don't want work.
Them
dem
days
day.pl
[...]
[...]
we
1pl.sbj
want
want
work.
work
In
in
these
dem
day,
day[pl]
them
dem
days,
day.pl
these,
dem
they,
3pl.sbj
they
3pl.sbj
don't
neg
want
want
work.
work
In those days, [when I was small,] we wanted to work. These days, today [...] no one wants to work.
Example 12-64:: Sir 'Arry Oakes ax tell the government of - they the days the UBP govern, You work half of the people, let me work the other half. He say, You ain't got nothing to tell me what to do with them black business - over there. That's right. And every one of them work for him, work for Sir Harry Oakes. He buy seven thousand acre of land to build low-cost house for the poor people this country - they kill him.
Sir
Sir
'Arry
Harry
Oakes
Oakes
ax
ask
tell
tell
the
art
government
government[sg]
[...]
[...]
You
2pl.sbj
ain't
neg
got
got
nothing
indf
to
to
tell
tell
me
me
what
what
to
to
do
do
with
with
them
dem
black
black
business
business[pl]
[...].
[...]
Sir Harry Oakes told the government [...] You’re not going to tell me what to do with those black businesses over there [...].