Value Mixed aspectual-temporal system

Language:
Negerhollands
Parameter:
Tense-aspect systems
References
Stolz 1986: 159,184

Examples

  1. Weni am a lo pasḗ di hus, di hou man a ki di klēn juṅ lo pasḗ.
    Weni
    when
    am
    3sg
    a
    pst
    lo
    prog
    pasḗ
    pass.by
    di
    det
    hus,
    house
    di
    det
    hou
    old
    man
    man
    a
    pst
    ki
    see/look
    di
    det
    klēn
    small
    juṅ
    boy
    lo
    prog
    pasḗ.
    pass.by
    "When he was walking past the house, the old man saw the boy passing by."
  2. Di dibel a kurí./ Astu am kā bou di hus [...].
    Di
    ldet
    dibel
    devil
    a
    pst
    kurí./
    run
    Astu
    after
    am
    3sg
    kā
    compl
    bou
    build
    di
    det
    hus
    house
    [...].
    [...]
    The devil ran away. / After he had built the house [...].

    See Josselin de Jong 1926: 63, 17, 37

  3. Wa ju lō du? Am a se: Mi lō mulā́ stēn.
    Wa
    what
    ju
    2sg
    lō
    prog
    du?
    do
    Am
    3sg
    a
    pst
    se:
    say
    Mi
    1sg
    lō
    prog
    mulā́
    grind
    stēn.
    stone
    "What are you doing?" He said: "I am grinding stones."

    See Josselin de Jong 1926: 22