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Example 32-78
N
krê
sink sebóla.
N
1sg
krê
want
sink
five
sebóla.
onion
I want five onions.
Portuguese:
Quero cinco cebolas.
Comment:
Unmarked stative verb has present reference.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
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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