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Example 2-169
Kofi
teki
a nefi
koti
a brede.
Kofi
Kofi
teki
take
a
det
nefi
knife
koti
cut
a
det
brede.
bread
Kofi cut the bread with a knife.
Comment:
MOST OF THESE ‘TAKE’ VERB CHAINS SEEM TO BE CASES OF COORDINATION, INVOLVING TWO EVENTS.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Winford and Migge 2008
: 710
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Instrumental expressions: Serial verb
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Instrument of the second verb, no resumptive pronoun
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