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Example 11-256
Somting mek a muuvment de iin di waata.
Som-ting
some-thing
mek
make
a
art
.
indf
muuvment
movement
de
dem
.
loc
iin
in
di
art
.
def
waata.
water
Something [just] made a movement in the water over there.
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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