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Value Serial verb plus preposition
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
Parameter:
Coming from named places
References
Faraclas 1996
: 75-81, 151-153
Examples
Ìm (frò̱m) Òyó rìtó̱n ko̱m.
Ìm
3sg
.
sbj
(frò̱m)
(
loc
)
Òyó
Òyó
rìtó̱n
return
ko̱m.
come.
loc
S/he returned from Òyó.
See
Faraclas 1996
: 155
Ìm rìtó̱n frò̱m Òyó ko̱m.
Ìm
3sg
.
sbj
rìtó̱n
return
frò̱m
loc
Òyó
Òyó
ko̱m.
come.
loc
S/he came from Òyó.
See
Faraclas 1996
: 155
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