Value Inchoative expressed by progressive and completive markers

Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Parameter:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning
References
Winer 1993: 28

Examples

  1. Wi go done dead before we reach back to di cyar.
    Wi
    1pl
    go
    fut
    done
    compl
    dead
    dead
    before
    before
    we
    1pl
    reach
    reach
    back
    back
    to
    to
    di
    det
    cyar.
    car
    We will have died before we go back to the car.

    See Winer 1993: 28

  2. Hi does sick.
    Hi
    3sg
    does
    hab
    sick.
    sick
    He is getting sick.