Datapoint Trinidad English Creole/Aspect markers and inchoative meaning

Values

Inchoative expressed by progressive and completive markers

Example 6-56:
Wi go done dead before we reach back to di cyar.
Wi
1pl
go
fut
done
compl
dead
dead
before
before
we
1pl
reach
reach
back
back
to
to
di
det
cyar.
car
We will have died before we go back to the car.

Source: Winer 1993: 28

Example 6-57:
Hi does sick.
Hi
3sg
does
hab
sick.
sick
He is getting sick.
Confidence:
Certain