Value Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are both unmarked

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs

Examples

  1. I - I been in a - a - in - in a - in a - plane crash before. [No way!] Yeah, that's fifteen years ago when my daddy die. I was in Miami, and I had to leave - out of Miami about - 7:30 that night. And catch a private plane out for Crooked Island, Sunday morning for the funeral. And when we got - when we got in Crooked Island, before we - just before we land, the pilot said - tell us to be prepare, 'cause the gear stuck, the landing gear stuck. But, you see, Crooked Island is a place like this, where the e- where - where the runway is - both side is sandy ground, and the plane - when it hit - when it hit the runway, it run off the - the runway. And she hit and she run until she bog in the sand - just about - just about the top of the plane was in the sand. But other places wouldn'ta had that opportunity, 'cause 'e ain't much places in the Bahamas where the runway is sandy. And that what save us.
    [...]
    [...]
    when
    when
    my
    my
    daddy
    daddy
    die
    die[pfv]
    [...]
    [...]
    just
    just
    before
    before
    we
    we
    land
    land[pfv]
    [...]
    [...]
    it
    it
    run
    run[pfv]
    off
    off
    [...]
    [...]
    the
    the
    runway
    runway
    [...]
    [...]
    And
    and
    that
    that
    what
    what
    save
    save[pfv]
    us.
    us
    [...] fifteen years ago, when my daddy died [...] just before we landed [...] it ran off the runway [...] and that's what saved us.
  2. Jesus love me.
    Jesus
    Jesus
    love
    love[stat.prs]
    me.
    1sg.obj
    Jesus loves me.
  3. And then afterwards - uh - the policeman had to put handcuff on his hand and on his two feet, 'cause he want try fight them.
    [...]
    [...]
    'cause
    because
    he
    3sg.sbj
    want
    want[stat.pst]
    try
    try
    fight
    fight
    them.
    3pl.obj
    [...] because he wanted to try to fight them.
  4. The bird white - chickcharney, yeah. And, you know, they get face - sometime you look after 'im, he face look like owl. Sometime - you look again - he face look like dog. Sometime when you look again - he face look like cat. Yeah! They ain't no ordinary bird. You know, they's bird what - uh - uh - I believe it in myself - they does - they be work witch or something like that.
    [...]
    [...]
    they
    they
    get
    get[stat.gener]
    face
    face
    [...]
    [...]
    he
    3sg.poss
    face
    face
    look
    look[stat.gener]
    [...]
    [...]
    [The bird is white - the chickcharney (mythical creature), yeah. And, you know,] they have a face - [sometimes] [...], its face looks [like that of an owl. Sometimes, when you look again, its face looks like that of a dog].