JC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Word Formation, Preposition And Postposition, Reduplication
12 May 2020
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Im chop (past tense interpretation) di maka . Im a chop chop (repetitive) di maka . When you duplicate a verb in jc, it indicates that it is repetitive/present. To indicate something being habitual you write the verb once. The tense always occurs before the aspect. Serial verb constructions refer to instances of 2 or more verbs occurring in succession without any pause in between. Ron go tel jan fi bring di buk kom gi mi . Ron kom luk si if yu nuo im . The demonstrations can be combined with this suffix ya or de (there) The simplest way to form the negative in jc is to put the negative marker no in front of the verb. No normally has a present tense reading - for past tenses, neva is normally used. Waa (question + aspect + go = verb + on = preposition)gwaan .
