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Example 28-51
ɛkɛ wa stupa so, krɛkɛ ben, ofru hildapo
ɛkɛ
1sg
wa
pst
stupu-a
stop-
ipfv
so,
so
krɛkɛ
creek
ben,
inside
ofru
over
hilda-apu
Hilda-
pl
I was living over there, in the creek, on the other side of Hilda and her family.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 239
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
The associative plural: Associative plural marker identical to additive plural marker
Uses of the habitual marker: Habitual, progressive, and current state
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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