Datapoint Gullah/Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers

Gullah allows a modal verb before the anterior tense marker and the completive aspect marker as in She might been done cook 'She may have cooked [already]' (Cunningham 1992: 51). Frank (2007: 161) reports as follows:

The following is the standard set of preverbal TAM markers in Gullah:

(1)
been anterior tense
gwine prospective mood
da imperfective aspect
done completive aspect

All four of these TAM markers would rarely, if ever, co-occur in the same verb phrase, but the relative order is as follows:

(2)
done + been + da + gwine + VERB

Values

The feature does not apply

Example 13-80:
She might been done cook.
She
3sg
might
might
been
pst
done
pfv
cook.
cook
She might have cooked [already].

Source: Cunningham 1992: 51

Confidence:
Intermediate