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Example 55-157
Li praṅ lakaz (e) (li) don torti
Li
he
praṅ
take
lakaz
house
(e)
(and)
(li)
(he)
don
give
torti
turtle
He took the house (and he) gave [it to] Turtle.
Comment:
/don torti/ has the small rise + fall intonation associated with all predicates regardless of whether
e
or
li
or both are included or excluded. Therefore Baker does not consider this to be a bona fide serial construction.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
'Give' serial verb constructions: No ‘give’ serials exist
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