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Example 3-131
Di mi bì tá kó te tjiká a pási, nóo a bì kái mi táa u mi tooná kó n'én.
Di
then
mi
1sg
bì
tns
tá
asp
kó
come
te
till
tjiká
enough
a
loc
pási,
way
nóo
then
a
3sg
bì
tns
kái
call
mi
1sg
táa
say
u
for
mi
1sg
tooná
turn
kó
come
n'=én.
loc
=
3sg
When I was already on my way, he called me to come back to him.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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