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Example 23-78
wai nao i stap mekem hem i save kilim evri man?
wai
why
nao
now
i
agr
stap
prog
mekem
make
hem
3sg
i
agr
save
know
kilim
kill
evri
every
man?
man
So why do they always make him (have to) kill everybody?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, nothing can intervene
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