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Example 7-191
I pook i hed in a jakspanya nes.
I
3sg
pook
poke
i
3sg
.
poss
hed
head
in
in
a
indf
jak-spanya
jack-spaniard
nes.
nest
It poked its head in a jack-spaniard nest.
Comment:
‘It’ refers to a monkey. This example shows
in
combined with a transitive motion verb.
In
and
ina
are clearly variants.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Prescod 2004
: A20
Language:
Vincentian Creole
by
Paula Prescod
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’: At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
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