Datapoint Jamaican/Verb doubling and focus

Values

Verb fronted with a copy in the background clause

Example 8-157:
A swel it swel, luk da. A bigfut dem gi mi.
A
foc
swel
swell
it
3sg
swel,
swell
luk
look
da.
there
A
foc
bigfut
bigfoot
dem
3pl
gi
give
mi.
1sg
It really swelled up, look there. Someone caused me to have elephantiasis. OR: It really swelled up, look there. Someone gave me the bigfoot.

Source: Patrick 2007: 138

Example 8-158:
A tiif Piita tiif di yam.
A
foc
tiif
steal
Piita
Peter
tiif
steal
di
det
yam.
yam
Steal the yam is what Peter did.
Confidence:
Very certain