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Aspect markers and inchoative meaning
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Inchoative expressed by progressive marker
Example 3-63:
Dí mujée tá hánse.
Dí
def
.
sg
mujée
woman
tá
asp
hánse.
beautiful
The woman is becoming beautiful.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Language:
Saramaccan
Feature:
Aspect markers and inchoative meaning
Source:
Fieldwork data
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