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Example 53-182
Ye te preske kapab trete nenporteke maladi.
Ye
3pl
te
pst
preske
almost
kapab
able
trete
treat
nenporteke
any
maladi.
illness
They could treat almost any kind of illness.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 201
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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