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Example 7-136
I posh evriting duhng.
I
3sg
posh
push
evri-ting
every-thing
duhng.
down
He pushed everything down.
Comment:
The verb is understood as referring to the past in unmarked dynamic contexts.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Prescod 2004
: 243
Language:
Vincentian Creole
by
Paula Prescod
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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