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Example 55-78
Ganes ti pe aṅkor travay
Ganes
Ganesh
ti
pst
pe
prog
aṅkor
still
travay
work
Ganesh was still working (= had not yet finished the day's work).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
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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