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tense in Kazakh (
I play → Мен ойнаймын; I will play → Мен ойнаймын); tenses expressing
continued activity, such as the English present continuous or past continuous (
I am playing, I was
playing), have to be detected and mapped onto sets of two lexical units (
Мен ойнап жатырмын,
Мен ойнап отырдым) where the main verb is found in the
-п participle form (
ойнап), and a
suitable finite form (
жатырмын, отырдым) of an auxiliary verb (
жатыр, отыр) is used to
express
number and person agreement
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(see Table Table) for details.
Table 3 Examples of tense mapping operations
performed at the chunk level
Достарыңызбен бөлісу: