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Example 22-82
Ol man meri wok long singsing na kaikai na mekim kain kain samting stap.
Ol
pl
man
man
meri
woman
wok
prog
long
prog
singsing
sing
na
and
kaikai
eat
na
and
mek-im
do-
tr
kain
kind
kain
kind
samting
thing
stap.
prog
Everyone was singing and feasting and doing all kinds of things.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, open-class items may intervene
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