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Example 3-52
A
bì ɔ
sa
ta wɔɔkɔ.
A
3sg
bì
tns
ɔ
mood
sa
can
ta
asp
wɔɔkɔ.
work
He could have worked. OR: He could have been able to work.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 20
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: Immediately preceding the verb
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers: Tense-Mood-Aspect
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
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