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Example 54-104
Lontan té i fé èk sak trésé an vakoi.
Lontan
long.ago
te-i
pst
-
fin
fe
do
ek
with
sak
bag
trese
woven
an
with
vakwa.
screw.pine
Long ago it was done with a bag made of screw pine (pandanus utilis).
French:
Autrefois on le faisait avec un sac tressé en vacoa.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cellier 1982
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, nothing can intervene
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