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Example 17-141
Ìm ko̱m push Uche e̱nta hol.
Ìm
3sg
.
sbj
ko̱m
REALIS
push
push
Uche
Uche
e̱nta
enter
hol.
hole
S/he pushed Uche into the hole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Faraclas 1996
: 156
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
by
Nicholas Faraclas
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: Serial verb construction
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