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Example 11-140
Ai don sii som piipl we gat moni hi doz get piipl fa work.
Ai
1sg
don
compl
sii
see
som
some
piipl
people
we
rel
gat
get
moni
money
hi
3sg
.
m
doz
hab
get
get
piipl
people
fa
for
work.
work
I have seen some people who have money getting people to work for them.
Comment:
There is no number concordance between
piipl
and
hi
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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