Value Only progressive function

Language:
Kriol
Parameter:
Uses of the progressive marker
References
Hudson 1985: 40-41

Examples

  1. Aim heting fut.
    Aim
    1sg:prog
    het-ing
    hurt-prog2
    fut.
    foot
    My foot hurts.
  2. Nomo gota meit=gun im jidanabat [...] olgaman G.
    Nomo
    neg
    gota
    com
    meit=gun
    mate=contr
    im
    3sg
    jidan-abat
    sit-prog
    [...]
    [...]
    olgaman
    old.woman
    G.
    G.
    Without any companion she's sitting there, old lady G.
  3. Halideitaim yuno wi bin oldei wok dijey la Ivanhoe.
    Halidei-taim
    holiday-time
    yuno
    you.know
    wi
    we
    bin
    pst
    oldei
    always/hab
    wok
    walk
    dij-ey
    prox-dir
    la
    loc
    Ivanhoe.
    Ivanhoe.
    In the holidays we used to walk over here to Ivanhoe station.
  4. Thed kainoba song na, wi neba bin askimbat alabat, dem olpipul.
    Thed
    dem
    kainoba
    kind.of.a
    song
    song
    na,
    now/foc
    wi
    1pl
    neba
    neg2
    bin
    pst
    ask-im-bat
    ask-tr-prog
    alabat,
    3pl
    dem
    dem.pl
    olpipul.
    old.people
    That kind of song, we never asked the old people about. OR: It [was] that kind of song [that] we never asked them [for], those old people, (Orig. Transl.)

    See Angelo et al. 1998

  5. Tubala kamin hiya we imin habim tubala marrug.
    Tubala
    two
    kam-in
    come-prog2
    hiya
    here
    we
    subord
    im=in
    3sg=pst
    hab-im
    have-tr
    tubala
    two
    marrug.
    hidden
    The two are coming here, the ones that he (a white man) had kept hidden away. (Context: a narrative about the escape of the speaker and her classificatory sister from a station where, as young girls, they were kept for domestic labour - quoting a familiy member when they reached their family living in the hill country.)
  6. Dijan langa Leguna tubala bin tokin.
    Dijan
    prox:adj
    langa
    loc
    Leguna
    Legune
    tubala
    3du
    bin
    pst
    tok-in.
    talk-prog2
    It was at Legune that the two were talking.