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Example 9-98
I hapn dat i hia bawt wan ledi.
I
it
hapn
happen
dat
that
i
he
hia
hear
bawt
about
wan
a
ledi.
lady
It so happened that he heard about a lady.
Comment:
Statives and non-statives can be unmarked for past.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 2004
: 531
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
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