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Datapoint Nicaraguan Creole English/Aspect change in verb chains

Example 11-166:: Wen evritin kuk gud gud yu tek it aaf di faya.
Wen
when
evri-tin
every-thing
kuk
cook
gud
good
gud
good
yu
2sg
tek
take
it
3sg.n
aaf
off
di
art.def
faya.
fire
When everything is thouroughly cooked, you take it off the fire.
Example 11-167:: Wail di man getin aaf wat ih woz afta, ih hier a duori komin kluos, rait gens di bank weh ih woz, so ih stie iizi, iizi tu ihself.
Wail
while
di
art.def
man
man
get-in
get-prog
aaf
off
wat
what
ih
3sg
woz
cop.pst
afta,
after
ih
3sg
hier
hear
a
art.indf
duori
canoe
kom-in
come-prog
kluos,
close
rait
right
gens
against
di
art.def
bank
bank
weh
rel
ih
3sg
woz,
cop.pst
so
so
ih
3sg
stie
stay
iizi,
easy
iizi
easy
tu
to
ih-self.
3sg-refl
While the man was getting off with what he had been looking for, he heard a canoe coming close, right towards the bank where he was so he kept calm all by himself.