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Example 5-78
wel wan dee mi bin a lai dong pan dis boot
wel
well
wan
one
dee
day
mi
1sg
bin
pst
a
asp
lai
lie
dong
down
pan
on
dis
this
boot
boat
Well, one day I was lying down on this boat.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 149, lines 365-366
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite articles: Indefinite article distinct from numeral ‘one’
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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