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Example 63-83
úwo kan g-wónusi morú
úwo
3sg
kan
impf
g-wónusi
ipfv
-speak
morú
Moru
He was speaking Moru.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Luffin 2005
: 292
Language:
Kinubi
by
Xavier Luffin
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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