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Example 53-302
Vje fam sote dan mon kou.
Vje
old
fam
woman
sote
jump
dan
in
mon
1sg
.
poss
kou.
neck
The old lady threw her arms around me. (Lit. The old lady jumped into my neck.)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 309
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Motion-to and motion-from: Identity and differentiation
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