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Example 3-104
De bi
hai
hɛn
puu
a di baaku.
De
3pl
bi
tns
hai
pull
hɛn
3sg
puu
remove
a
loc
di
def
.
sg
baaku.
hole
They pulled him up out of the hole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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