Datapoint Bahamian Creole/Suppletion according to tense and aspect

As in English, strong suppletion according to tense exists in a few irregular verbs and the copula.

Values

Strong suppletion according to tense only

Example 12-126:
When I - when I - when I s- first saw a pers- first white person, I come from Andros, I know I used to - I know it was white person, because, you know, God make white and black, right? So that wasn't nothing for him to holler for, hey, because he know everybody ain't black, right?
[...]
[...]
it
it
was
3sg.cop.pst
white
white
person
person
[...]
[...]
that
that
wasn't
3sg.cop.pst.neg
nothing
nothing
for
for
him
3sg.m.obj
to
to
holler
holler
for
for
[...].
[...]
[...] I knew there were white people [...] So that wasn’t anything for him to cry out about [...].
Example 12-127:
They mus'e is be way to bottom of the sea, hey, the jellyfish.
They
3pl.sbj
mus'e
adv
is
hab
be
cop.inf
way
way
to
to
bottom
bottom
of
of
the
the
sea
sea
[...].
[...]
They must live way down there at the bottom of the sea [...].
Example 12-128:
They went in the man shop or man - uh - place to rob the man, the man shot them with a shotgun, the man blow one of them head off - shot - yeah, the man shot couple of them, yeah, they get shot. They went to people home to try to rob, yeah, and they get shoot - two - two of them.
They
3pl.sbj
went
go.pst
in
in
the
the
man
man[poss]
shop
shop
[...].
[...]
They went into the man’s shop [...].
Example 12-129:
Well, I tell you what they do - they - some of them - some of them is go 'round the school try to make trouble with people children, and then police is be 'round the school, or security.
[...]
[...]
some
some
of
of
them
them
is
hab
go
go
'round
around
the
the
school
school[pl]
[...].
[...]
[...] some of them go to the schools [and try to trouble the children] [...].
Confidence:
Very certain