Value Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are marked differently

Language:
Negerhollands
Parameter:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs
References
Josselin de Jong 1926: 23, 63

Examples

  1. An sini a sing een sang.
    An
    and
    sini
    3pl
    a
    pst
    sing
    sing
    een
    indf
    sang.
    song
    And they sang a song.

    See Josselin de Jong 1926: 16

  2. Am mangkḗ fo gi am twaləfhondərt patakón [...].
    Am
    3sg
    mangkḗ
    want
    fo
    for
    gi
    give
    am
    3sg
    twaləf-hondərt
    twelve-hundred
    patakón
    patacons
    [...].
    [...]
    He wants to give him twelve hundred patacons [...].

    See Josselin de Jong 1926: 61