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Example 31-100
N ben kaza. vs. N bai nha kaza.
N
I
ben
come
kaza.
home
vs.
vs.
N
I
bai
go
nha
my
kaza.
house
I came home. vs. I went home.
Comment:
Prototypical bare non-stative verbs are interpreted as past tense.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
2000
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
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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