Datapoint Afrikaans/Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb

Where het is non-finite, the PST auxiliary het has to be strictly adjacent to the past participle or the verbal cluster it governs. When het is finite, it necessarily surfaces in clause-second position (under the effect of V2). In this case, many elements may separate het and the verb. The same is true for optional cases of V2 in subordinate clauses.

Values

Particle, clause-second position

Example 29-81:
omdat hy dit laat val het
omdat
because
hy
3sg.m.nom
dit
3sg.n
laat
let
val
fall
het
pst
because he dropped it
Example 29-82:
Hy kon dit gesien het.
Hy
3sg.m
kon
could
dit
it
ge-sien
ptcp-seen
het.
pst
He could have seen it.
Example 29-83:
Hy het dit gister vir sy broer gewys.
Hy
3sg.m.nom
het
pst
dit
it
gister
yesterday
vir
to
sy
3sg.m.poss
broer
brother
ge-wys.
ptcp-show
He showed it to his brother yesterday.
Example 29-84:
[...] dat sy graag sal die boek wil lees. / [...] dat sy graag die boek sal wil lees.
[...]
[...]
dat
that
sy
3sg.f.nom
graag
eagerly
sal
shall
die
the
boek
book
wil
want
lees.
read.inf
/
 
[...]
[...]
dat
that
sy
3sg.f.nom
graag
eagerly
die
the
boek
book
sal
shall
wil
want
lees.
read.inf
[...] that she would very much like to read the book.

Source: Ponelis 1993: 331

Confidence:
Very certain