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Example 18-60
I
bin
don komot.
I
3sg
.
sbj
bin
pst
don
pfv
komot.
come.out
He/She had (already) left.
Comment:
This is sentence 89 on the TAM questionnaire (Dahl 1989).
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Schröder nd
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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