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Example 56-99
Tony ti (a)pe erezman ale.
Tony
Tony
ti
pst
(a)pe
prog
erezman
fortunately
ale.
leave
Fortunately, Tony was leaving.
Comment:
The sentence adverb
erezman
can also precede the sentence:
Erezman, Tony ti ape ale.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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