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Example 12-200
You take - uh - you take the bag and put in the machine and push the chicken in.
[...]
[...]
you
2sg
.
sbj
take
take[
hab
]
the
art
bag
bag
and
and
put
put
in
prep
the
art
machine
machine
and
and
push
push
the
art
chicken
chicken[
pl
]
in.
prep
[...] you take the bag and put [it] in the machine and push the chickens in.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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