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Example 8-79
Jan sik an im daata nuo.
Jan
John
sik
sick
an
and
im
3sg
daata
daughter
nuo.
know
John is sick and his daughter knows.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
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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