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==Related forms in creoles== Some [[creole language]]s have a marker of future time reference (or [[irrealis mood]]) modeled on the verb "go" as found in the ''going-to'' future of the English [[superstrate]].<ref>Holm, John, ''An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles'', Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 188.</ref> Examples include [[Jamaican English Creole]]<ref>Holm, pp. 93–95.</ref> /de go hapm/ "is going to happen", /mi a go ɹon/ "I am going to run", [[Belizean Creole]] English /gwein/ or /gouɲ/, [[Gullah language|Gullah]] ''Uh gwine he'p dem'' "I'm going to help them", [[Hawaiian Creole]] English<ref>Sakoda, Kent, and Siegel, Jeff, ''Pidgin Grammar'', Bess Press, 2003, pp. 38, 55-72.</ref> /Ai gon bai wan pickup/ "I gonna buy one pickup", /Da gai sed hi gon fiks mi ap wit wan blain deit/ "The guy said he gonna fix me up with one blind date", and [[Haitian Creole]]<ref>Turnbull, Wally R., ''Creole Made Easy'', Light Messages, 2000, p. 13.</ref> /Mwen va fini/ "I go finish".
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