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Example 5-140
Jaan push di kyaart go schreet insaid di riva
Jaan
John
push
push
di
def
.
art
kyaart
cart
go
go
schreet
straight
insaid
prep
di
def
.
art
riva
river
John pushed the cart straight into the river.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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