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Example 28-87
kɛko
wa ma
mja andri gut sondro kap di mabalen
kɛkɛ
like
o
3sg
wa
pst
ma
irr
mja
do
andri
other
gutu
thing
sondro
without
kapu
cut
di
the
maba
honey
alen
alone
It seems as if he was going to do something else besides just cut the honeycomb.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 2007
: 32
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: 'There is no 'seem' construction
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