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Example 29-169
Leah het Marie by die gat uit getrek.
Leah
Leah
het
pst
Marie
Mary
by
by
die
the
gat
hole
uit
out
ge-trek.
ptcp
-pulled
Leah pulled Mary out of the hole.
Comment:
Like the motion-to construction, this
by [...] uit
form is more common in colloquial Afrikaans than the circumpositional structure featuring identical adpositional elements (
uit [...] uit
).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Circumposition
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