Value At-rest marking is used to express motion-to

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’

Examples

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. They was in the church.
    They
    3pl.sbj
    was
    cop.pst
    in
    prep
    the
    art
    church.
    church
    They were in the church.