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Example 51-136
I bouré Pol adan tou-a.
I
3sg
bouré
push
Pol
Paul
adan
in
tou-a.
hole-
def
He pushed Paul into the hole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Martinican Creole
by
Serge Colot
and
Ralph Ludwig
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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