Value Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are both unmarked

Language:
Vincentian Creole
Parameter:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs

Examples

  1. Hi ha tu shiip.
    Hi
    3sg
    ha
    have
    tu
    two
    shiip.
    sheep
    He has two sheep. OR: He had two sheep.
  2. Hi bin ha tu shiip.
    Hi
    3sg
    bin
    pst
    ha
    have
    tu
    two
    shiip.
    sheep
    He had two sheep.
  3. I posh evriting duhng.
    I
    3sg
    posh
    push
    evri-ting
    every-thing
    duhng.
    down
    He pushed everything down.

    See Prescod 2004: 243