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Example 10-102
Ihn
wehn
gwain draundid.
Ihn
3sg
wehn
ant
gwain
fut
draundid.
drown
He was about to drown. OR: He almost drowned.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Unpublished field recordings
Language:
San Andres Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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