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Example 40-113
El uly-o uly-o ani pich-o salt dɛt əkə pos.
El
3sg
uly-o
look-
pst
uly-o
look-
pst
ani
and
pich-o
throw-
pst
salt
jump
dɛt
in
əkə
that
pos.
well
He looked around a while and then jumped into that well.
Comment:
This sentence is taken from a story told by Francis Martis.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Unpublished story
Language:
Korlai
by
J. Clancy Clements
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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