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Example 18-123
I bin go waka fo insayd fores.
I
3sg
.
sbj
bin
pst
go
go
waka
walk
fo
for
insayd
inside
fores.
forest
He was walking in the forest.
Comment:
This is sentence 181 on the TAM-Questionnaire (Dahl 1989).
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Schröder nd
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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