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

There is no grammatical marker for past time. Events in the past can be, of course, specified to some degree lexically.

Values

No overt past marker exists

Example 59-148:
mama ti mbi aga fade ge
mama
mother
ti
of
mbi
1sg
a-ga
pm-come
fade
just.now
ge
here
My mother just came here.
Example 59-149:
ala gwe zuska na yanga ti da
ala
3pl
gwe
go
zuska
all.the.way
na
prep
yanga
mouth
ti
of
da
house
They went all the way home.
Confidence:
Very certain