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Example 23-90
wok blong yu i gud blong wokbaot
wok
work
blong
poss
yu
2sg
i
agr
gud
good
blong
purp
wokbaot
walk.about
Your work is good for exploring.
Comment:
This could also be interpreted as past 'Your work was good [...].'
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
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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