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Example 10-103
Dehn
de
du evriting fi get Turkl souba.
Dehn
3pl
de
prog
du
do
evri-ting
every-thing
fi
comp
get
get
Turkl
Turtle
souba.
sober
They were doing their best to get Turtle sober.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Unpublished field recordings
Language:
San Andres Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, nothing can intervene
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