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Example 51-143
I halé Mari vini andéwò tou-a.
I
3sg
halé
pull
Mari
Mary
vini
come
andéwò
out
tou-a.
hole-
def
He pulled Mary out of the hole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Martinican Creole
by
Serge Colot
and
Ralph Ludwig
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Serial verb construction plus preposition
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