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Example 22-145
Ol mas pusim em kam klostu long paia.
Ol
3pl
mas
must
pusim
push
em
3sg
kam
come
klostu
close
long
prep
paia.
fire
They had to push him close to the fire.
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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