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Example 7-137
Dem tuhn dootish.
Dem
3pl
tuhn
turn
dootish.
stupid
They have become stupid.
Comment:
A change of state is expressed by ‘turn’.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Prescod 2004
: 126
Language:
Vincentian Creole
by
Paula Prescod
cite
Datapoints:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning: Inchoative expressed by progressive and completive markers
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