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Example 31-99
Mi’N sta li mi so ku kel dos.
Mi’N
I
sta
am
li
here
mi
me
so
only
ku
with
kel
these
dos.
two
I am here alone with only these two.
Comment:
If I used the typical example 'I believe in God', I would have to modify 'believe' with the aspect marker
ta
:
N ta kredita na Deus.
Instead, I picked the prototypical stative verb
sta
, as a case where the verb is unmarked.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
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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