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Example 53-194
Jordi ena en ta le piti ki pa kone
byen parle.
Jordi
today
ena
there.are
en
art
.
indf
ta
pile
le
art
.
def
.
pl
piti
child
ki
rel
pa
neg
kone
know
byen
well
parle.
speak
Today there are many children who don't know how to speak well.
French:
Aujourd'hui il y a beaucoup d'enfants qui ne savent pas bien parler.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 205
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
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
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