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Example 17-144
Ìm ko̱m pul Uche frò̱m hol kò̱mót.
Ìm
3sg
.
sbj
ko̱m
REALIS
pul
pull
Uche
Uche
frò̱m
loc
hol
hole
kò̱mót.
leave
S/he pulled Uche out of the hole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Faraclas 1996
: 155
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
by
Nicholas Faraclas
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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