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Example 49-131
M t ap boukannen manyòk.
M
1sg
t
ant
ap
inacc
boukannen
cook.over.woodfire
manyòk.
manioc
I was [in the process of] cooking manioc over a wood fire.
French:
J'étais en train de cuire du manioc au feu de bois.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fattier 1998
: 865
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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