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Example 8-77
Jan wehn de bil di ous.
Jan
John
wehn
ant
de
prog
bil
build
di
det
ous.
house
John was building the house.
Comment:
Compare this sentence with its negative counterpart in Example 78.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
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