Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Datapoint
Saramaccan
/
Aspect change in verb chains
Values
Show/hide details
Aspect change in verb chains is possible
Example 3-64:
A fáa páu
tá
túe.
A
3sg
fáa
chop
páu
tree
tá
asp
túe.
throw
He is felling the tree (i.e. at this very moment the tree is falling).
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 102
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Language:
Saramaccan
Feature:
Aspect change in verb chains
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 102
×