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Example 3-105
Mi manda hɛn go a di wosu.
Mi
1sg
manda
send
hɛn
3sg
go
go
a
loc
di
def
.
sg
wosu.
house
I sent him to the house.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Directional serial verb constructions with 'come' and 'go': ‘Come’ and ‘go’ directionals exist
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