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Value Habitual, progressive and future
Language:
Jamaican
Parameter:
Uses of the habitual marker
Examples
Mi de nyam di fuud.
Mi
1sg
de
prog
nyam
eat
di
det
fuud.
food
I am eating the food.
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).
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
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