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Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers
Examples
I gotta learn how to drive, cause with my age, people should - people - w-
shoulda done
learn how to drive long time.
[...]
[...]
people
people
[...]
[...]
shoulda
mod
.
aux
done
compl
learn
learn
[...].
[...]
[I’ll have to learn how to drive, because at my age,] one should have already learned [how to drive a long time ago].
When you get back, I gon’ done be finish this letter.
[...]
[...]
I
I
gon’
fut
done
compl
be
hab
finish
finish
[...]
[...]
[By the time you return,] I will have finished this letter.
I
did 'pose to
'pear in court.
I did 'pose to 'pear in court.
1sg
.
sbj
do.
pst
mod
.
aux
appear in court
I was supposed to appear in court.
I was working. I
did done
start working.
I
I
did
pst
done
compl
start
start
work-ing.
work-
prog
I was working. I had already started to work.
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