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Selecting a present participle
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Bliuwe stay can select the present participle itende eating in an idiomatic expression.

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Bliuwe stay can select the present participle itende eating in an idiomatic expression. The participle cannot be syntactically expanded, and the copula verb almost always takes the form of an infinitive:

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a. En noch koene se skraechwurk itende bliuwe
and DcP could they hardly eating stay
And even then they could hardly get enough to eat
b. *En noch koene se skraechwurk gehaktballen itende bliuwe
and DcP could they hardly meatballs eating stay
And even then they could hardly get enough meatballs to eat
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