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Example 30-107
Inkuántu N
sa ta
kume
ba
, txuba
sa ta
txobe
ba
manenti.
Inkuántu
while
N=sa=ta=kume-ba,
1sg
=
prog
=
ipfv
=eat-
ant
txuba
rain
sa=ta=txobe-ba
prog
=
ipfv
=rain-
ant
manenti.
constantly
While I was eating, it was constantly raining.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Brüser et al. 2002
: s.v. sa
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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