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Example 41-181
maaket dɛɛntru macaa andaa see amiis poy ceraa
maaket
market
dɛɛntru
inside
macaa
walk
andaa
go
see
cond
amiis
fishy.smell
pooy
habil
ceraa
smell
As you walk through the market, you can smell a fishy smell.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 3993
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
'Hear' and 'smell': Differentiation
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