Temporal Clause Verb Doubling (Feature 99)
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Feature Annotation
In some creole languages, a verb doubling construction can be used to express temporal adverbial clauses, and sometimes other types of subordinate clauses as well. An example from Haitian Creole is:
Rive Jan rive (epi) Mari pati.
arrive Jean arrive and Marie leave
‘As soon as Jean arrived, Marie left.’
Additional remarks
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Values
| Value | Value Annotation | |
| 1 | Temporal clauses can be expressed by a verb-doubling construction | Haitian Creole, Berbice Dutch Creole, Nicaraguan Creole (di kom yu kom ‘as soon as you come’) |
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| 2 | No verb-doubling construction for expressing temporal clauses | Seychelles Creole, English |
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