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Example 26-60
aɪ dono waɪ dɛ
nɛva
puɾ ɔm in a miɾol
aɪ
1sg
dono
neg
.know
waɪ
why
dɛ
3pl
nɛva
neg
.
pst
puɾ
put
ɔm
3sg
in
in
a
def
miɾol
middle
I don't know why they didn't put it in the middle.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 54
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Different TAM marking in negated clauses
Negative morpheme types: Negative auxiliary verb
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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