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Example 11-148
Wen dei
chek
di ship ih woz a ship lood av pomkin.
Wen
when
dei
3pl
chek
check
di
art
.
def
ship
ship
ih
3sg
woz
cop
.
pst
a
art
.
indf
ship
ship
lood
load
av
of
pomkin.
pumpkin
When they checked the ship, it was/carried a ship load of pumpkins.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are both unmarked
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