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Value Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are marked differently
Language:
Singlish
Parameter:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs
Examples
Then they quarrelled.
Then
then
they
3pl
quarrell-ed.
quarrel-
pst
Then they quarrelled.
See
Fong 2004
: 77
I have three children.
I
1sg
have
have
three
three
children.
child.
pl
I have three children.
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