**** System in Black English
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Sar = Saramaccan; JC = Jamaican Creole;
Tr = Trinidadian; BEV = Black English Vernacular
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- CVCV syllable structure Sar <[LINK] -1.>
- preposed neg. ("no") + modal Sar <[LINK] -2.>
- pass, surpass as comparative V. Sar <[LINK] -3.>
- Genderless 3rd p. s. pronoun "im" Sar <[LINK] -4.>
- "fi" prevrb. indir. command, purposives Sar JC <[LINK] -5.>
- verb leaves copy when fronted (PRO-drop) Sar JC <[LINK] -6.>
- adverbial ideophones Sar JC Tr (BEV) <[LINK] -7.>
- "se" as perception adjoiner Sar JC Tr (BEV) <[LINK] -8.>
- pro. subjective in hortative "let I tell you" Sar JC Tr (BEV) <[LINK] -9.>
- simple past V is completed action Sar JC Tr (BEV) <[LINK] -10.>
- "them" as enclitic plural marker Sar JC Tr BEV <[LINK] -11.>
- Stative transitive V. = Eng. "-ening" Sar JC Tr BEV <[LINK] -12.>
- Non-Eng. syntactic repetition in discourse Sar JC Tr BEV <[LINK] -13.>
- consecutive V's may refer back to prev. Vs. Sar JC Tr BEV <[LINK] -14.>
- Adverbs in AUX position ? JC Tr BEV <[LINK] -15.>
- postverbal particle from surface Eng. prep.s ? JC Tr ? <[LINK] -16.>
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Sutcliffe with Figueroa, _System in Black Language_, 132-33.