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Example 16-68
à tɛl àm se à nɛva kam sɔm bifɔ
à
1sg
tɛl
tell
àm
3sg
se
comp
à
1sg
nɛva
neg
.
compl
kam
come
sɔm
some
bifɔ
before
I told him that I had not gone to sea before.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999
: 217
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Different TAM marking in negated clauses
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