Datapoint Pichi/Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb

In the overwhelming majority of cases, the use of a preverbal temporal adverb immediately after the IPFV marker goes along with 'resumptive IPFV marking', i.e. the IPFV marker is repeated after the temporal adverb. The syntagmatic relation between the IPFV marker and the verb therefore appears to be tighter than that between other TAM markers and the verb, as in Example 79.

Values

Particle, a few lexical items may intervene

Example 19-79:
Naw dɛ̀n dè jis dè kan.
Naw
now
dɛ̀n
3pl
dè
ipfv
jis
just
dè
ipfv
kan.
come
Now they're just coming.
Example 19-80:
Dɛ̀n dè jis kan.
Dɛ̀n
3pl
dè
ipfv
jis
just
kan.
come
They're just coming.

Source: Yakpo 2009: 125

Confidence:
Very certain