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Example 56-42
I pran trwa kat bobin i roule.
I
3sg
pran
take
trwa
three
kat
four
bobin
bobbin
i
3sg
roule.
twine
He took three, four bobbins and twined them together. OR: He twined three, four bobbins together.
Comment:
Here, it is not clear whether we are dealing with one single event or more likely with two subevents.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Michaelis 1994
: 65
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Special dependent person forms for subject and object: Only dependent subject forms
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Theme of the second verb, literal interpretation possible
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