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Example 3-106
A bi tjá njanjá kó d'én.
A
3sg
bi
tns
tjá
carry
njanjá
food
kó
come
d'-én.
give-
3sg
He brought him food.
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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