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

The past marker ta occurs very rarely; I have not been able to elicit an example with a word intervening between ta and the verb, except for the progressive marker ka. But maybe further research will show that ta and the verb do not form a constituent, as is the case e.g. in Principense and Santome, where some words may occur between the past marker tava and the verb.

Values

Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene

Example 36-58:
Ê ta ka kata.
Ê
he
ta
pst
ka
prog
kata.
sing
He was singing.
Confidence:
Intermediate