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Example 56-98
Mon ti ankor pe manze.
Mon
1sg
ti
pst
ankor
still
pe
prog
manze.
eat
I was still eating.
Type:
constructed by native speaker
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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