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Value Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are both unmarked
Language:
Gullah
Parameter:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs
Examples
Den e git eenta de boat an
go
ta de Magadan sho.
Den
then
e
3sg
git
get
eenta
into
de
the
boat
boat
an
and
go
go
ta
to
de
the
Magadan
Magadan
sho.
shore
Then he got into the boat and went to the coast of Magdala. OR: [A]nd [he] took ship and came into the coasts of Magdala. (Mt 15.39)
See
Anonymous 2005
: 59
Ya
know
John wa Bactize.
Ya
you
know
know
John
John
wa
who
Bactize.
baptizes
You know John the Baptist. (see Mt 14.8)
See
Anonymous 2005
: 53
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