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Example 8-134
Siera tek bokit kech waata a di paip.
Siera
Sarah
tek
take
bokit
bucket
kech
catch
waata
water
a
at
di
det
paip.
pipe
Sara caught water at the pipe with a bucket.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions: Instrument of the second verb, no resumptive pronoun
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