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Example 32-72
Entre kunpanher no
ta
falá kriol.
Entre
between
kunpanher
colleague
no
2sg
ta
prs
.
hab
falá
speak
kriol.
creole
Between colleagues we speak Creole.
Portuguese:
Entre os colegas falamos crioulo.
Comment:
Here, the marker
ta
apart from marking present tense fulfills the function of habitual.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Habitual, progressive, current state, and future
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