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Example 76-42
nanako opinera malo tereva awoña - kaili suli picuktu
nanako
afterward
opinera
summer
malo
two
tereva
enough
awoña
I
-
kaili
come
suli
more
picuktu
want
After two summers are finished I want to come again.
Comment:
The word
tereva
'That's enough!' can perhaps be considered as a perfective marker. The hyphen in the original example indicates a pause.
Type:
reconstructed by documentalist
Source:
Stefánsson 1909
: 229
Language:
Eskimo Pidgin
by
Hein van der Voort
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Datapoints:
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb: No TAM markers
Tense-aspect systems: No or only one tense or aspect marker
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