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Value Serial verb plus preposition
Language:
Early Sranan
Parameter:
Going to named places
Examples
A no wanni wakka na Djukondre.
A
3sg
.
sbj
no
neg
wani
want
waka
walk
na
loc
Dyukondre.
Jew.country
He did not want to travel around in Judea. [NOT: He did not want to go to Judea.]
See
Schumann 1781
: 130
A wakka go na Galileakondre, ma a no go na Nazareth.
A
3sg
.
sbj
waka
travel
go
go
na
loc
Galileakondre,
Galilee.country
ma
but
a
3sg
.
sbj
no
neg
go
go
na
loc
Nazareth.
Nazareth
He travelled to Galilee, but he did not go to Nazareth.
See
Schumann 1781
: 45
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