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Value Immediately preceding the verb
Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb
Examples
I did done gone to sleep.
I
I
did
pst
done
compl
gone
go
to
to
sleep.
sleep
I had gone to bed (before my brother came home).
He - he work - uh-uh, he work out town - he work - uh - he say they building one church somewhere out town.
[...]
[...]
they
they
build-ing
build-
prog
one
a
church
church
[...].
[...]
[...] they’re building a church [...].
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