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Example 3-107
A
tei
hɛn
buta
ala.
A
3sg
tei
take
hɛn
3sg
buta
put
ala.
over.there
She put it over there.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Theme of the second verb, literal interpretation possible
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