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Example 28-93
di mama
suku
M. fi ʃima fan di wari ka
di
the
mama
mother
suku
want
M.
m
.
fi
for
ʃima
move
fan
from
di
the
wari
house
ka
neg
His mother doesn't want M. to move out.
Comment:
This illustrates present reference of a bare stative verb.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 324
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
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
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