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Example 52-50
misyé té
souvan
ka vini isi-a
misyé
he
té
pst
souvan
often
ka
ipfv
vini
come
isi-a
here-
def
He often came to our place.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Jennings and Pfänder 2013+
Language:
Guyanais
by
Stefan Pfänder
cite
Datapoints:
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: In a leftward position
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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