Datapoint Seychelles Creole/Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb

There seem to be a few grammatical and lexical items which can intervene, e.g. touzour 'always', nek 'merely', byen 'well', and sentence adverbs e.g. erezman 'fortunately', sertennman ' must be doing something' (epistemic value). Fek 'a moment ago' and ankor 'still' do tend to precede the progressive particle (see the difference with Mauritian Creole): Ou ankor pe dormi 'You are still sleeping'.

Values

Particle, a few lexical items may intervene

Example 56-94:
Mon pe touzour dormi.
Mon
1sg
pe
prog
touzour
always
dormi.
sleep
I am always sleeping.
Example 56-95:
Pol pe sertenman dormi sa ler.
Pol
Paul
pe
prog
sertenman
surely
dormi
sleep
sa
this
ler.
time
Paul must be sleeping at this time.
Example 56-99:
Tony ti (a)pe erezman ale.
Tony
Tony
ti
pst
(a)pe
prog
erezman
fortunately
ale.
leave
Fortunately, Tony was leaving.
Confidence:
Very certain