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Example 25-224
Mela bin stil swim, guwap, la keib, kabidwan.
Mela
1pl
.
excl
bin
pst
stil
still
swim,
swim
guw-ap,
go-up
la
loc
keib,
cave
kabid-wan.
covered-
adj
We still swam and went up into a cave [so we were] covered.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Angelo et al. 1998
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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