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Example 41-154
vaarzim see kii falaatu saba siɲoorpa?
vaarzim
vaarzim
see
cond
kii
what
falaa-tu
quot
-
pfv
saba
know
siɲoor-pa?
mister-
dat
Do you know what "vaarzim" means?
Comment:
Vaarzim
means 'cultivation'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 3073
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
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 marked differently
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer consists of ‘say’ plus some other marker
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