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Example 26-3
dis waɾɛva spɹiʔ wɛn ʤamp intu dis wan gaɪ [...] dis mis was ʧokiŋ diz gaɪz nɛk
dis
dem
waɾɛva
whatever
spɹiʔ
spirit
wɛn
pst
.
pfv
ʤamp
jump
intu
into
dis
dem
wan
one
gaɪ
guy
[...]
[...]
dis
dem
mis
mist
was
cop
.
pst
ʧoki-ŋ
choke-
prog
diz
dem
gaɪ-z
guy-
gen
nɛk
neck
This whatever spirit jumped into this one guy [...] this mist was choking this guy's neck.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 48
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: Special motion-to preposition
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