JC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jamaican Patois, Adjective Phrase, Universo Online
12 May 2020
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Lecture 5: jamaican creole grammar - word order, pronouns, and focusing. Do not write is, am, or are. There is no apostrophe s in jc. You have to move the noun when writing a focused noun. The basic word order of jc is svo (subject, verb, order), just as the basic word order of english. He ate the apple = im iit/nyam di apl . Jc does not invert word order for yes/no questions like english. = im gaan a skuul/im gaan a skuul? . The copula (the verb is ): is a verb which serves to join the subject of the sentence to the predicate. In english, this verb is be and its many variants. There is no single copula verb in jc that matches the english word be, jc instead uses three different forms depending on the function.
