Value Mixed aspectual-temporal system

Language:
Early Sranan
Parameter:
Tense-aspect systems
References
van den Berg 2007

Examples

  1. Wie ben dee aksie na wan Nefie.
    Wi
    1pl
    ben
    pst
    de
    ipfv
    aksi
    ask
    na
    for
    wan
    indf.sg
    nefi.
    knife
    We were asking for a knife.
    Dutch: Wy vraagen na een Mes. [op.cit.]

    See Weygandt 1798: 61

  2. A de drungu, a no kann go reti, a de kanti.
    A
    3sg.sbj
    de
    ipfv
    drungu,
    be.drunk
    a
    3sg.sbj
    no
    neg
    kan
    can
    go
    go
    reti,
    right
    a
    3sg.sbj
    de
    ipfv
    kanti.
    tilt
    He is drunk, he cannot go straight, he is tilting.

    See Schumann 1783: 80

  3. Dem pulu hem na <Gemeente>.
    Den
    3pl
    Ø
    pfv
    puru
    remove
    en
    3sg
    na
    loc
    <Gemeente>.
    congregation
    They expelled him from the congregation.
    German: Er ist aus der Gemeine ausgethan, ausgeschlossen [op.cit.]

    See Schumann 1783: 142