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Example 29-158
Marie het winkel toe gegaan.
Marie
Mary
het
pst
winkel
shop
toe
to
ge-gaan.
ptcp
-gone
Mary went to the shop.
Comment:
Where a bare noun goal is used, the directional P
na
must be omitted, as shown above. This construction is not possible in motion-from structures - cf. *
Marie het winkel af gekom
[Marie PST shop off PCL.come] 'Marie has come from the shop'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Differentiation
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