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Example 9-103
Owaz kom now dat dem mos go ʃo taym fu go sho.
Owaz
hours
kom
come
now
now
dat
that
dem
3pl
mos
must
go
go
ʃo
shore
taym
time
fu
for
go
go
sho.
shore
Hours go by so that they must go ashore, it's time to go ashore.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 2004
: CD
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
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
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Accusative alignment
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