Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 13-89
He
be
try to sing.
He
3sg
be
hab
try
try
to
to
sing.
sing
He [often] tries to sing.
Type:
naturalistic spoken or elicited from speaker
Source:
Cunningham 1992
: 53
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Only habitual function
×