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Example 20-57
米合高葛温店
My hap go court one time.
My
1sg
hap
pfv
go
go
court
court
one
one
time.
time
I have been to court once.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Tong 1862
: IV.32
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
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 marked differently
Motion-to and motion-from: Identity and differentiation
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