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Example 8-133
Maikal waak go a skuul.
Maikal
Michael
waak
walk
go
go
a
to
skuul.
school
Michael walked to school.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Directional serial verb constructions with 'come' and 'go': ‘Come’ and ‘go’ directionals exist
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