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Example 53-195
Nou kouri
mene le fleur o simityer le Tousen.
Nou
1pl
kouri
go
mene
bring
le
art
.
pl
fleur
flower
o
to
simityer
cemetery
le
art
.
def
.
pl
Tousen.
All.Saints.Day
We brought flowers to the cemetery on All Saints Day.
French:
Nous avons porté des fleurs au cimetière à la Toussaint.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 206
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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