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Example 30-106
Si mudjer [...]
ta
fase
ba
poku kumida.
Si=mudjer
3sg
.
poss
=woman
[...]
[...]
ta=fase-ba
ipfv
=make-
ant
poku
little
kumida.
food
His wife made little food.
German:
Seine Frau machte wenig Essen.
Comment:
Here
ta
marks the imperfective with a habitual function + anterior marker
-ba
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
da Silva 1987
: 41
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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