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Example 1-195
Joe komopo dan na Planasie.
Yu
2sg
komopo
come.from
dan
then
na
loc
pranasi.
plantation
You're coming from the plantation then.
Dutch:
Gy komt dan van Plantagie [op.cit.]
Comment:
'Motion-from' is expressed by the verb
komopo/komoto
'come out/from'; the preposition
na
does not add to semantics (the preposition
fu
does not cooccur with
komoto/komopo
).
Type:
written
Source:
Weygandt 1798
: 103
Language:
Early Sranan
by
Margot C. van den Berg
and
Adrienne Bruyn
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Identity
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