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Example 25-293
Brom jea mibalan kipgon, raidap - kaman raidap langa taun na.
Brom
From
jea
there
mibala=n
1pl
=
pst
kipgon,
keep.going
raidap
right.up
-
kaman
come
raidap
right.up
langa
loc
taun
town
na.
now
From there we kept going, [and] came straight to the town then.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Roper River. This example illustrates both the source and the goal in a motion expression.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982
: 63
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Differentiation
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