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Example 12-196
Yeah, they left
from
other islands and came over, find other woman and they - uh - ma- get marry and stay.
[...]
[...]
they
3pl
.
sbj
left
leave.
pst
from
from
other
other
islands
island.
pl
[...]
[...]
[...] they left from other islands [...]
Comment:
There is no example involving motion from the market in my data, but I am confident that it would be expressed with
from
also.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Differentiation
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