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Example 2-175
A e
teki
den
tyari gwe
go, go drai miri.
A
3sg
e
ipfv
teki
take
den
3pl
tyari
carry
gwe
away
go,
go
go
go
drai
turn
miri.
mill
He would take them along to go turn the mill.
Comment:
NANGA SEEMS TO BE THE PREFERRED WAY OF EXPRESSING COMITATIVE MEANING. IT iS ALSO POSSIBLE TO USE A ‘TAKE’ SVC, BUT THIS IS LESS COMMON, AND
TEKI
HERE SEEMS TO MEAN LITERALLY ‘TAKE’. COMPARE this example to Example 174.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Winford data, Tape 45-b
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Comitatives and instrumentals: Identity
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