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Example 68-22
De blong
ada
makan.
De
3sg
blong
not.yet
ada
prog
makan.
eat
He's not eating yet.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
van Minde 1997
: 231
Language:
Ambon Malay
by
Scott Paauw
cite
Datapoints:
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: Dependent subject and object forms
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Particle, only grammatical markers can intervene
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