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Example 30-180
E rapára ma
dentu
lumi un kóbra sa ta kemába.
E=rapára
3sg
=notice
ma=dentu
comp
=in
lumi
fire
un=kóbra
art
.
indf
=snake
sa=ta=kemá-ba.
prog
=
ipfv
=burn-
ant
He noticed that a snake was burning in the fire.
German:
Er bemerkte, dass in dem Feuer eine Schlange brannte.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
da Silva 1987
: 370
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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