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Example 22-147
Em pulim brata bilong em kam antap.
Em
3sg
pulim
pull
brata
brother
bilong
poss
em
3sg
kam
come
antap.
above
He pulled his brother out (of the hole).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
: WSP F17
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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