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Example 13-152
E take stick kill um.
E
3sg
.
sbj
take
take
stick
stick
kill
kill
um.
3sg
.
obj
He killed it with a stick.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 211
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Instrument of the second verb, no resumptive pronoun
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