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Example 23-79
ale tufala i stap wok long Santo ia
ale
so
tufala
3du
i
agr
stap
prog
wok
work
long
loc
Santo
Santo
ia
def
So the two of them were working in Santo.
So the two of them are working in Santo.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Dual in independent personal pronouns: Dual form in all three persons
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, nothing can intervene
Tense-aspect systems: Purely aspectual system
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