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Example 9-45
Sambodi me wan pik it in.
Sambodi
somebody
me
ant
wan
fut
pik
pick
it
it
in.
in
Somebody would have picked it up.
Comment:
The future marker follows the anterior marker (counterfactual).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 2004
: 536
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite pronouns: Old generic-noun-based indefinites continuing somebody/something
Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb: Particle, a few lexical items may intervene
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