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Example 22-144
Em pusim han i go insait long bilum.
Em
3sg
pusim
push
han
hand
i
pm
go
go
insait
inside
long
prep
bilum.
string.bag
She pushed her hand into the bilum.
Comment:
A
bilum
is a string bag.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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