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Example 2-117
A man wani taki den kaw musu go pupe.
A
the
man
man
wani
want
taki
that
den
the.
pl
kaw
cow
musu
must
go
go
pupe.
relieve.themselves
The man wanted the cows to relieve themselves.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Winford transcripts
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Habitual, progressive, and current state
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Identical complementizer
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