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Example 5-77
dem
das
plaant dem faam an ting an dem
das yuus-tu
stan de
dem
3pl
das
hab
plaant
plant
dem
poss
.
3pl
faam
farm
an
and
ting
thing
an
and
dem
3pl
das
hab
yuus-tu
pst
.
hab
stan
remain
de
there
They used to cultivate their farm and so on, and they used to stay there.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bickerton 1975
: 67
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Only habitual function
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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