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Example 2-125
A pikin e kon breiti.
A
det
pikin
child
e
ipfv
kon
come
breiti.
happy
The child is becoming happy.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Winford 1997
: 263
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning: Inchoative expressed by progressive marker
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