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Example 56-96
Bird Island mon'n deza ale.
Bird
Bird
Island
Island
mon'n
1sg
.
prf
deza
already
ale.
go
I've already been to Bird Island.
French:
Je suis déjà allé à Bird Island. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 181)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 180
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
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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