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Example 61-51
Mina buka yena: yena khona lapha.
Mina
I
buk-a
see-
prs
yena:
he
yena
he
khon-a
be-
prs
lapha.
there
I see him: he is there.
Comment:
Both verbs
buka
(non-stative) and
khona
(stative) take the same marking for the present.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Field notes Mesthrie
Language:
Fanakalo
by
Rajend Mesthrie
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 marked differently
Predicative locative phrases: Invariant copula
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation
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