Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Datapoint
Saramaccan
/
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers
Values
Show/hide details
Tense-Mood-Aspect
Example 3-52:
A
bì ɔ
sa
ta wɔɔkɔ.
A
3sg
bì
tns
ɔ
mood
sa
can
ta
asp
wɔɔkɔ.
work
He could have worked. OR: He could have been able to work.
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 20
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Language:
Saramaccan
Feature:
Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 20
×