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Example 3-103
Ko
hopo
mi
tja
go
a liba!
Ko
come
hopo
pull
mi
1sg
tja
carry
go
go
a
loc
liba!
top
Pull me up!
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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