**** System in Black Language -- examples
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2. JC: _no mosi_ <[LINK] -2.>
gloss: "must not"
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4. JC: _im beli big_ <[LINK] -4.>
gloss: "She is pregnant"
5. JC: _fi dem go wa_ -- _Tel im kom ya_ <[LINK] -5.>
gloss: "for them to go away -- "tell here/him to come here"
6. JC: _a waak me waak mek mi kom liet_ <[LINK] -6.>
gloss: "It is because I walked that I am late"
7. JC: _de kekl a bwail, pukapuka_ <[LINK] -7.>
gloss: "the kettle was boiling merrily"
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8. verbs of perception in English take "that" as <[LINK] -8.>
adjoiner -- seems that, believes that, thinks that, ...
JC: _shi nuo se shi gud_
gloss: "she knows that she's good"
9. JC: _mek a tel yu_ <[LINK] -9>
calque: let I tell you
gloss: "let me tell you"
10. JC: _im gaan_ <[LINK] -10.>
gloss: "S/he's gone"
11. JC: _di soun-dem_ -- _Amarjit-dem_ <[LINK] -11.>
gloss: "the sounds" -- "Amarjit and her team"
12. JC: _di bwai feisi_ -- _di breda a bad_ <[LINK] -12.>
gloss: "the boy is feisty" -- "the brothers are becoming bad/worse"
13. BEV: _He went -- when he went he saw this guy_ <[LINK] -13.>
Compare to a topic-comment construction.
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14. US/BEV: _NULL say sssh!, [the stone] went sssh!_ <[LINK] -14.>
May have reduced subjects, the verb refers back to a previous verb.
15. BEV: _right quick do it" <[LINK] -15.>
gloss: "do it quickly, without delay"
BEV: _she steady working"
gloss: "She's continuously, persistently working"
16. JC: _im ron-we_ -- _mek dem hier-we_ <[LINK] -16.>
gloss: "s/he ran away" -- "so that they really (continuously) hear it"
Sutcliffe with Figueroa, _System in Black Language_, 132-33.