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Example 47-4
Riba e isla aki ta biba un mion hende.
Riba
on
e
def
isla
island
aki
dem
.
prox
ta
tns
biba
live
un
one
mion
million
hende.
person
On this island live a million people.
Type:
both elicited and naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg and Muysken 1995
: 210
Language:
Papiamentu
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the habitual marker: Habitual, progressive, current state, and future
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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