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Example 11-255
Yu luk wan papaya trii an push it iin di papaya trii ruut.
Yu
2sg
luk
look
wan
art
.
indf
papaya
papaya
trii
tree
an
and
push
push
it
3sg
.
n
iin
in
di
art
.
def
papaya
papaya
trii
tree
ruut.
root
Find a papaya tree and push it into the papaya tree’s root.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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