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Datapoint Bahamian Creole/Marking of pronominal possessors

For more basilectal speakers, pronominal possessors are not necessarily case-marked (as in Examples 78 and 79).

Example 12-75:: Because one day like - like - uh - my other son hats was on the line, hey, and they gone picking the hat, they try to stop me dry his clothes ...
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[...]
my
1sg.poss.det
other
other
son
son[poss]
hats
hat.pl
[...]
[...]
his
3sg.poss
clothes
clothes
[...]
[...]
[...] my other son’s hats [...] his clothes [...]
Example 12-76:: Hold your bucket and walk along and pick it.
[...]
[...]
your
2sg.poss
bucket
bucket
[...]
[...]
[...] your bucket [...]
Example 12-77:: And then she fall right out, she hit her head so hard.
[...]
[...]
she
3sg.sbj
hit
hit[pfv]
her
3sg.f.poss
head
head
so
so
hard.
hard
[...] she hit her head so hard.
Example 12-78:: Yeah, with we grand - because, see, after this - after we mother dead, hey, after we mother dead - uh - like - like the welfare used to mind 'em, right? And all of the smaller set gone live with we granddaddy.
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[...]
with
with
we
1pl
grand-
grand-
[...]
[...]
after
after
we
1pl
mother
mother
dead
dead
[...]
[...]
with
with
we
1pl
granddaddy.
granddaddy
[...] with our grand- [...] after our mother had died [...] [the smaller children lived] with our grandfather.
Example 12-79:: Talk - you know like - when you been to Andros long, they talk like dragging they voice and things like that.
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[...]
dragging
drag.prog
they
3pl
voice
voice
[...]
[...]
[...] dragging their voice [...]