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Example 9-79
Bad tiŋ hapn̩.
Bad
bad
tiŋ
thing
hapn̩.
happen
Bad things happen.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1980-1989
: 43
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
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Datapoints:
Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives: No adjective agrees with the noun
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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