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Example 15-67
If ren nɔ bin de kam, wi bin fɔ de ple bɔl.
If
if
ren
rain
nɔ
neg
bin
pst
de
prog
kam,
come
wi
we
bin
pst
fɔ
mood
de
prog
ple
play
bɔl.
ball
If it hadn’t been raining, we would have been playing ball (i.e. soccer).
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Krio
by
Malcolm Awadajin Finney
cite
Datapoints:
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers: Tense-Mood-Aspect
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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