Datapoint Jamaican/Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb

Values

Particle, a few lexical items may intervene

Example 8-69:
Dis-ya pikni wehn aalwiez ogli.
Dis-ya
this-here
pikni
child
wehn
ant
aalwiez
always
ogli.
ugly
This child was always ugly.
Example 8-70:
Di pikni wehn de kil di flowaz.
Di
det
pikni
child
wehn
ant
de
prog
kil
kill
di
det
flowaz.
flowers
The child was killing the flowers.
Confidence:
Very certain