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Example 5-83
ii miit wit wan leedi a mek ail
ii
3sg
miit
meet
wit
with
wan
indf
.
art
leedi
lady
a
prog
mek
make
ail
oil
He met a lady who was making oil.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 130(line 226)
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
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 both unmarked
Expression of pronominal subjects: Obligatory pronoun words
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