Value Tense-Mood-Aspect

Language:
Nengee
Parameter:
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers
References
Huttar and Huttar 1994: 512ff

Examples

  1. Efu J. be de ya, a be sa e siibi nownow.
    Efu
    if
    J.
    J.
    be
    pst
    de
    cop
    ya,
    here
    a
    3sg
    be
    pst
    sa
    mood
    e
    prog
    siibi
    sleep
    nownow.
    now
    If J. was here, he might be sleeping now.
  2. Fa i si u be de ya, da na so u be mu e de.
    Fa
    how
    i
    you.sg
    si
    see
    u
    you/we
    be
    pst
    de
    cop
    ya,
    here
    da
    then
    na
    cop
    so
    so
    u
    you/we
    be
    pst
    mu
    oblig
    e
    ipfv
    de.
    cop
    Just the way that you were now, it is thus you should have been.

    See Huttar and Huttar 1994: 509