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Example 19-152
Dì snek kɔ̀mɔ́t
frɔ̀n
bɔ̀tɔ́n dì hos.
Dì
def
snek
snake
kɔ̀mɔ́t
come.from
frɔ̀n
from
bɔ̀tɔ́n
bottom
dì
def
hos.
house.
The snake come out from beneath the house.
Comment:
The motion-from sense may be supported by a directional, the preposition
fron
'from'. But it is optional since the verb
komot
already contributes a direction sense to the spatial relation.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Field data
Language:
Pichi
by
Kofi Yakpo
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Overlap
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