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Example 25-303
Pulemat
from
wota na!
Pul-em-at
pull-
tr
-out
from
from
wota
water
na!
now
Pull it out of the water now!
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates a source adpositional phrase with the verb
pulem
'pull'.
Type:
translation in elicitation of other language
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Special motion-from adposition
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