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Example 48-80
Nina
ta
besá-ndo é.
Nina
Nina
ta
prog
besá-ndo
kiss-
prog
é.
he/she
Nina is kissing him/her.
Spanish:
Nina está besándolo/-la.
Comment:
Sentence final
é
is interchangeable here with
ele
'he, she, him, her'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
de Friedemann and Patiño Rosselli 1983
: 259
Language:
Palenquero
by
Armin Schwegler
cite
Datapoints:
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: Immediately preceding the verb
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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