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Value At-rest marking is used to express motion-to
Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’
Examples
You take - uh - you take the bag and put in the machine and push the chicken in.
[...]
[...]
you
2sg
.
sbj
take
take[
hab
]
the
art
bag
bag
and
and
put
put
in
prep
the
art
machine
machine
and
and
push
push
the
art
chicken
chicken[
pl
]
in.
prep
[...] you take the bag and put [it] in the machine and push the chickens in.
I ain't like Eleuthera, because when I was small, Eleuthera, them children, one of them push me in one hole.
[...]
[...]
one
one
of
of
them
them
push
push
me
1sg
.
obj
in
prep
one
det
hole.
hole
[...] one of them pushed me into a hole.
They was in the church.
They
3pl
.
sbj
was
cop
.
pst
in
prep
the
art
church.
church
They were in the church.
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