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Example 37-82
Bana wô.
Bana
plantain
Ø
pfv
wô.
ripen
The plantain is ripe. OR: The plantain has ripened.
Comment:
To refer to a ripe plantain
, bana wô-du
[plantain ripen-PST.PTCP] is used.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Maurer 2009
Language:
Principense
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning: Inchoative expressed by progressive and completive markers
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