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Example 3-102
A tuusi di tatai go a di aguja baaku.
A
3sg
tuusi
push
di
def
.
sg
tatai
thread
go
go
a
loc
di
def
.
sg
aguja
needle
baaku.
hole
She pushed the thread through the needle's eye.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
de Groot 1977
: 6
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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