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Example 3-53
A
tá
woóko.
A
3sg
tá
asp
woóko.
work
He is working.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, nothing can intervene
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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