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Example 23-133
olgeta oli pusum Vira i
go long
solwota
olgeta
3pl
oli
agr
pusum
push
Vira
Vira
i
agr
go
go
long
to
solwota
salt.water
They pushed Vira into the ocean.
Comment:
This example is based on a spoken token (Meyerhoff 1994–1995 fieldwork):
Oli sakem mi i go long solwota
. 'They threw me into the ocean'.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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