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Example 28-86
ɛk
wa sa
kutɛ en ar twe fan eni an tem eni
ɛkɛ
1sg
wa
pst
sa
irr
ku-tɛ
catch-
pfv
en
one
ar
or
twe
two
fan
from
eni
3pl
an
and
tem
tame
eni
3pl
I would have caught one or two of them and tamed them.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 2007
: 32
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers: The feature does not apply
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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