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Example 2-170
Boi,
teki
a tin sensi dya
go
bai tabaka gi mi.
Boi,
boy
teki
take
a
det
tin
ten
sensi
cent
dya
here
go
go
bai
buy
tabaka
tobacco
gi
for
mi.
me
Boy, take this dime and go and get me some tobacco.
Comment:
THERE SEEMS TO BE A CLEAR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN the USE OF
NANGA
FOR INSTRUMENTS AND the USE OF
TEKi
. THE LATTER SEEMS TO MEAN SIMPLY ‘TAKE'.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Winford data, Tape 32-a
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Instrumental expressions: Serial verb
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