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Example 35-188
Ê toma faka va mpon.
Ê
3sg
toma
take
faka
knife
va
slice
mpon.
bread
He sliced the bread with a knife. OR: He took the knife and sliced the bread.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own data
Language:
Santome
by
Tjerk Hagemeijer
cite
Datapoints:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Instrument of the second verb, no resumptive pronoun
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