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Example 52-78
i pran li mété li annan mem trou-a
i
he
pran
take
li
it
mété
put
li
it
annan
in
mem
same
trou-a
hole-
art
He took it and put in into the same hole.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Jennings and Pfänder 2013+
Language:
Guyanais
by
Stefan Pfänder
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Nominal and verbal conjunction: Differentiation
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Theme of the second verb, literal interpretation possible
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