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Example 8-80
Mieri kuk di fuud.
Mieri
Mary
kuk
cook
di
det
fuud.
food
Mary cooked the food.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
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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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