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Example 26-63
a ænt goin in a waɾa
a
1sg
ænt
be.
neg
go-in
go-
prog
in
in
a
art
waɾa
water
I'm not going in the water.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 165
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Different TAM marking in negated clauses
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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