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Example 48-90
I polé ku eso nu.
I
I
polé
can
ku
with
eso
this
nu.
neg
I cannot (go along) with this. = This is not for me. OR: This is not my kind of thing.
Spanish:
(Yo) no puedo con eso.
Comment:
Stative
polé
'can' never takes stative
ta
. Thus this would be ungrammatical:
*I ta polé ku eso nu.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Recorded by author
Language:
Palenquero
by
Armin Schwegler
cite
Datapoints:
Uses of the progressive marker: Only progressive function
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