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Value Serial verb construction plus preposition
Language:
Saramaccan
Parameter:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’
References
de Groot 1977
: 6
Examples
A tuusi di tatai go a di aguja baaku.
A
3sg
tuusi
push
di
def
.
sg
tatai
thread
go
go
a
loc
di
def
.
sg
aguja
needle
baaku.
hole
She pushed the thread through the needle's eye.
See
de Groot 1977
: 6
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