Value Habitual, progressive and future

Language:
Jamaican
Parameter:
Uses of the habitual marker

Examples

  1. Mi de nyam di fuud.
    Mi
    1sg
    de
    prog
    nyam
    eat
    di
    det
    fuud.
    food
    I am eating the food.
  2. Mi de go a Tong (tumaro).
    Mi
    1sg
    de
    prog
    go
    go
    a
    to
    Tong
    Town
    (tumaro).
    (tomorrow)
    I am / will be going to Town (tomorrow).
  3. wan plies we dem a plie haki mach
    wan
    indf
    plies
    place
    we
    where
    dem
    3pl
    a
    hab
    plie
    play
    haki
    hockey
    mach
    match
    a place where they play hockey matches

    See Christie 1986: 185