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Example 12-204
He throw it out, and he catch - it take 'bout twelve man to pull out one shark out the water.
[...]
[...]
to
to
pull
pull
out
prep
one
det
shark
shark
out
prep
the
art
water.
water
[...] to pull a single shark out of the water.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Special motion-from adposition
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