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Example 2-215
Kofi
hari
a pikin
komoto
na
ini a olo.
Kofi
Kofi
hari
pull
a
det
pikin
child
komoto
come.out
na
loc
ini
in
a
det
olo.
hole
Kofi pulled the child out of the hole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Winford 2008
: 33
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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