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Example 9-92
I me de get di kantrak en i jos haya di badj.
I
3sg
me
ant
de
prog
get
get
di
the
kantrak
contract
en
and
i
3sg
jos
just
haya
hire
di
the
badj.
barge
He had been getting the contract, and he just rented the barge.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1993
: 234
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
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