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Example 39-76
Dəpəy atro
dez
pɛd kavok.
Dəpəy
then
atr-o
throw-
pst
dez
ten
pɛd
stone
kavok.
cave/hole
Then (he) threw ten stones into the hole.
Comment:
In Diu Indo-Portuguese, past forms of lexical verbs (i.e. inflected forms, which do not co-occur with preverbal Tense-Aspect-Mood markers), such as
atro
in this sentence, express Perfective Aspect by default.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cardoso 2009
: 329
Language:
Diu Indo-Portuguese
by
Hugo C. Cardoso
cite
Datapoints:
Sortal numeral classifiers: The language has no numeral classifiers
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