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Example 47-1
Awe mainta mi a bai subi Hooiberg.
Awe
today
mainta
morning
mi
1sg
a
pfv
bai
go
subi
climb
Hooiberg.
Hooiberg
This morning I climbed Hooiberg.
Comment:
Hooiberg is a hill in Aruba popularly climbed for exercise.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Kouwenberg and Murray 1994
: 46
Language:
Papiamentu
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
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
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