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Example 4-75
Den be sa man kweki en?
Den
they
be
pst
sa
pot
man
able
kweki
raise
en?
him
Would they have been able to raise him?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Goury and Migge 2003
: 101
Language:
Nengee
by
Bettina Migge
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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