Datapoint Nicaraguan Creole English/Aspect markers and inchoative meaning

The completive marker don can perhaps be combined with raip 'ripe' and similar adjectives (cf. example 165), but this is marginal.

Values

No inchoative meaning with aspect markers

Example 11-156:
Shi get kreezi.
Shi
3sg.f
get
get
kreezi.
crazy
She got crazy.

Source: nd

Example 11-157:
Wi staat tu taak.
Wi
1pl
staat
start
tu
to
taak.
talk
We started to talk.

Source: nd

Example 11-158:
Som a dem get sad an staat tu baal.
Som
some
a
of
dem
3pl
get
get
sad
sad
an
and
staat
start
tu
to
baal.
cry
Some of dem get sad and start to cry.

Source: nd

Example 11-159:
So den di puur Miskito dem staat fiil laik nobadi.
So
so
den
then
di
art.def
puur
poor
Miskito
Miskito
dem
pl
staat
start
fiil
feel
laik
like
nobadi.
nobody
So then the poor Miskito started feeling like nobody.

Source: nd

Example 11-160:
Shi nuo mai papa an faal in lov an get pregnant an haf mi rait deh.
Shi
3sg.f
nuo
know
mai
1sg.poss
papa
father
an
and
faal
fall
in
in
lov
love
an
and
get
get
pregnant
pregnant
an
and
haf
have
mi
1sg
rait
right
deh.
dem.loc
She got to know my father and fell in love and got pregnant and had me right there.

Source: nd

Example 11-161:
Deh get veks.
Deh
3pl
get
get
veks.
vex
They get annoyed.

Source: nd

Example 11-162:
Dem deh wach di bwai dem giem.
Dem
3pl
deh
prog
wach
wach
di
art.def
bwai
boy
dem
pl
giem.
game
They were watching the game of the boys.
Example 11-163:
Wen yu don pik dat out nou yu put it tu boil.
Wen
when
yu
2sg
don
compl
pik
pick
dat
dem
out
out
nou
now
yu
2sg
put
put
it
3sg.n
tu
to
boil.
boil
When you've finished picking that out now, you put it to boil.

Source: nd

Example 11-164:
di mango get/staat/ton raip
di
art.def
mango
mango
get/staat/ton
get/start/turn
raip
ripe
the mangoes become ripe
Example 11-165:
Di mango don raip.
Di
art.def
mango
mango
don
compl
raip.
ripe
The mango turned ripe.
Confidence:
Very certain