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Example 13-153
Then you
take
the gravy
put
əm in a dish.
Then
then
you
you
take
take
the
the
gravy
gravy
put
put
əm
3sg
in
in
a
a
dish.
dish
Then you put the gravy in a dish.
Type:
naturalistic spoken or elicited from speaker
Source:
Cunningham 1992
: 37
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Theme of the second verb, literal interpretation possible
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