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Example 2-103
Te prani aleisi ten, mi
ben e
gwe go prani aleisi.
Te
when
prani
plant
aleisi
rice
ten,
time
mi
I
ben
pst
e
ipfv
gwe
go
go
go
prani
plant
aleisi.
rice
When it was time to plant rice, I went to plant rice.
Comment:
ALL EXAMPLES FROM WINFORD (2000a) ARE FROM NATURAL CONVERSATIONS RECORDED IN 1994.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Winford 2002
: 434
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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