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Example 26-58
a kud fɛo sambadi waz aɹaʊn; wɛn jɛo ma neɪm
a
1sg
kud
could
fɛo
feel
sambadi
indf
waz
cop
.
pst
aɹaʊn;
around
wɛn
pst
.
pfv
jɛo
yell
ma
1sg
.
poss
neɪm
name
I could feel somebody was around. It yelled my name.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 72
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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