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Example 53-179
Mo
te pa kone
parle langle ditou.
Mo
1sg
te
pst
pa
neg
kone
know
parle
speak
langle
English
ditou.
at.all
I didn't know at all how to speak English.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 322
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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