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Example 5-74
dem
bin don
noo wa fu du
dem
3pl
bin
pst
don
compl
noo
know
wa
what
fu
to
du
do
They had already known what to do.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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