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Example 49-148
L ap malad.
L
3sg
ap
inacc
malad.
sick
He/She is getting sick (inchoative).
French:
Elle/Il commence à être malade.
Comment:
There is ambiguity because it is also possible to interpret it as the immediate future: 'He/she will be sick' (DeGraff 2007: 105).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
DeGraff 2007
: 105
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning: Inchoative expressed by progressive marker
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