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Example 29-166
Leah stoot Marie by die gat in.
Leah
Leah
stoot
pushes
Marie
Mary
by
by
die
the
gat
hole
in.
in
Leah pushes Mary into the hole.
Comment:
The circumpositional structure featuring
by [...] in
is more common in the colloquial language than the circumpositional structure featuring identical adpositonal elements (
in [...] in
).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: Circumposition
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