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Special reciprocal construction based on 'other'
Example 6-91:
meself, youself, he-/she-/itself, weself, allyuhself, themself
meself,
1sg
.self
youself,
2sg
.self
he-/she-/itself,
3sg
.self
weself,
1pl
.self
allyuhself,
2pl
.self
themself
3pl
.self
myself, yourself, himself/herself/itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
Source:
Solomon 1993
: 51
Example 6-92:
to compare the soca culture to dat nasty Jamaican passa passa where dey roll in mud and juk
one anoda
to
to
compare
compare
the
det
soca
soca
culture
culture
to
to
dat
dem
nasty
nasty
Jamaican
Jamaican
passa
passa
passa
passa
where
where
dey
3pl
roll
roll
in
prep
mud
mud
and
conj
juk
push
one
one
anoda
another
to compare the soca culture to that nasty Jamaican festival where they roll in mud and push each other around
Confidence:
Intermediate
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
by
Susanne Mühleisen
cite
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Feature:
Reciprocal constructions
Source:
Own corpus data
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