Value Inchoative expressed by completive marker

Language:
Singlish
Parameter:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning
References
Zhiming 2005

Examples

  1. The tongue red already.
    The
    the
    tongue
    tongue
    red
    red
    already.
    already
    The tongue {has turned/turned} red. (NOT: The tongue was red.)

    See Zhiming 2005: 239

  2. The patient eat food already.
    The
    det
    patient
    patient
    eat
    eat
    food
    food
    already.
    prf
    The patient has started to eat food.

    See Bao 1995: 183