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Example 3-83
Mi
tei
di faka
koti
di bɛɛɛ.
Mi
1sg
tei
take
di
def
.
sg
faka
knife
koti
cut
di
def
.
sg
bɛɛɛ.
bread
I cut the bread with the knife.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 85
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Instrumental expressions: Serial verb
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Instrument of the second verb, no resumptive pronoun
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