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Example 9-50
Dey no wan du it.
Dey
3pl
no
neg
wan
want
du
do
it.
it
They don't want to do it.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1992
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun: Overlap
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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