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Example 12-121
And then afterwards - uh - the policeman had to put handcuff on his hand and on his two feet, 'cause he
want
try fight them.
[...]
[...]
'cause
because
he
3sg
.
sbj
want
want[
stat
.
pst
]
try
try
fight
fight
them.
3pl
.
obj
[...] because he wanted to try to fight them.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
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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