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Example 75-212
Noo kinwaensh amanipitaayaahk li shaar daa la boo uschi.
Noo
neg
kinwaensh
long
a-mani-pitaa-yaahk
comp
-loose-pull-
1pl
.
excl
li
art
.
m
.
sg
shaar
car
daa
loc
la
art
.
f
.
sg
boo
mud
uschi.
from
We pulled the car out of the mud in short order. OR: It did not take long to pull the car out of the mud for us.
Comment:
The element
dan
(also
daa
) is a general locative preposition. Sometimes it is combined with other prepositions, such as
uhchi
'from'.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Laverdure and Allard 1983
: 204
Language:
Michif
by
Peter Bakker
cite
Datapoints:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’: Circumposition
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