Datapoint Jamaican/Aspect markers and inchoative meaning

Not all stative verbs yield inchoative reading when combined with the progressive marker. Some stative verbs give a current state reading when they co-occur with the progressive marker, e.g. bad 'bad' in di bwai de bad [DET boy PROG bad] 'The boy is being bad.'

Values

Inchoative expressed by progressive marker

Example 8-81:
Im de taiyad.
Im
3sg
de
prog
taiyad.
tired
He is becoming tired.
Confidence:
Very certain