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Aspect change in verb chains
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Aspect change in verb chains is possible
Example 32-211:
No táva te andá, un d'es Ø vrá te xutá-nos.
No
1pl
táva
pst
te
ipfv
andá,
walk
un
one
d'es
of=
dem
Ø
pfv
vrá
turn
te
prog
xutá-nos.
kick-
1pl
We were walking, one of them turned [and began] to kick us.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
Feature:
Aspect change in verb chains
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
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