Grammatical Features of English
Di boy dem
Simple Plural 'dem'
Plenty mango
No plural marking of generic nouns
Five mango
No plural markinh with numbers or quntifiers
buk buk buk
Reduplication
Plenty mangoes
Plurality mostly marked w/ the suffix
She run
Non-stative verbs unmarked for simple past tense
She did believe
Stative verbs have preverbal markers
She ran, She went
Non-stative and Stative verbs are marked
He did go a school
'a' or null preposition used interchangeably for to and at
He went to school
To or at not interchangeable
run go give ya mudda dis
Verbs allowed in a series
Give your mother this please
Verbs generally not allowed in a series
He is hungry
inversion or insersion in questions making them distinct from statements
she slap me, she speed outside
Unmarked verbs with past time references
She good, She sweet
Subject-adjective structures
She is good, She is sweet
Subject-copula-adjective structure
She doh want nothing
Multiple negavtives allowed
He Hungry
No inversion or insersion in questions