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Example 8-70
Di pikni wehn de kil di flowaz.
Di
det
pikni
child
wehn
ant
de
prog
kil
kill
di
det
flowaz.
flowers
The child was killing the flowers.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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