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Example 18-61
Wehn ma broda
bi
di rait di leta, a
bi
di wait fo gaden.
Wen
while
ma
my
broda
brother
bin
pst
di
ipfv
rait
write
di
def
.
art
leta,
letter
a
1sg
.
sbj
bin
pst
di
ipfv
weit
wait
fo
for
gaden.
garden
While my brother was writing the letter, I was waiting in the garden.
Comment:
This is sentence 28 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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