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Example 2-119
Ma yu
no musu
du den sani dati.
Ma
but
yu
2sg
no
neg
musu
must
du
do
den
the.
pl
sani
thing
dati.
dem
But you mustn’t do those things.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Winford 2000
: 71
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
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