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Example 29-89
[...] omdat hy besig is om te werk
[...]
[...]
omdat
because
hy
3sg
.
m
.
nom
besig
busy
is
is
om
inf
.
conj
te
to
werk
work.
inf
[...] because he is busy working / [...] because he is (in the process of) working
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, open-class items may intervene
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