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Example 54-111
Li la
pa
rantré.
Li
3sg
la
prf
pa
neg
rantre.
come.back
He has not come back home. OR: He is not yet at home.
French:
Il n'est pas rentré.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 76
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Reduced TAM marking in negated clauses
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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