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Example 9-99
Wok di yoŋ wuman dey no wan du it.
Wok
work
di
the
yoŋ
young
wuman
women
dey
3pl
no
neg
wan
want
du
do
it.
it
The young women don't want to work.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Escure 1992
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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