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Example 28-88
o
wa
riʃ
a
o
3sg
wa
pst
riʃi-a
swell-
ipfv
He was swelling.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 2007
: 29
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Affix
Uses of the progressive marker: Progressive, habitual, and current state
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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