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Re: Creole vs. Pidgin

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Monday, July 26, 1999, 1:38
Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> wrote:

[about Cavite=F1o]
> The perfective is expressed by _ya_ (not=20 > _na_ as I earlier thought), e.g., _Ya come yo_ 'I ate (already)'.
Oh, *that* makes sense. _Ya_ is Spanish for 'already', and in Latin American Spanish it can be thought as a perfective marker too, since the perfect tenses are almost obsolete: (Ya) he comido. 'I have eaten already' (Ya) com=ED. 'I ate (already)' >> 'I just ate' --Pablo Flores