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Example 5-79
an luk hou hai hai dee taim yu a fraikn mi?
an
and
luk
look
hou
how
hai
high
hai
high
dee
day
taim
time
yu
2sg
a
asp
fraikn
scare
mi?
1sg
And (yet) look how in the broad daylight you're scaring me?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 231, lines 1229-1230
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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