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Example 22-83
Na narapla i wok long bagarapim stret narapla man ia.
Na
and
nara-pla
other-
mod
i
pm
wok
prog
long
prog
bagarap-im
spoil-
tr
stret
completely
nara-pla
other-
mod
man
man
ia.
foc
And they were completely bashing each other up.
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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