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Example 37-140
Jingantxi
txya
paage
fo
gayola [...].
Jingantxi
ogre
txya
extract
paage
parrot
fo
come.from
gayola
cage
[...].
[...]
The ogre took the parrot out of the cage [...].
Comment:
Here, the ogre is located outside the cage.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Günther 1973
: 140
Language:
Principense
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Serial verb construction
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