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Example 32-75
Kes tropa táva te korrê.
Kes
det
tropa
troop
táva
pst
.
ipfv
te
prog
korrê.
run
The troops were running.
Portuguese:
As tropas estavam a correr.
Comment:
Here «te» represents a reduced form of the marker
ta.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
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