Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Value Instrument of the second verb, with resumptive pronoun
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
Parameter:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions
References
Lang et al. 2012
Examples
E toma nabádja
e
da kunpanheru na odju ku el.
E=toma
3sg
=take
nabádja
knife
e=da
3sg
=give
kunpanheru
comrade
na=odju
in=eye
ku=el.
with=it
He took the knife and jabbed the other person in the eye with it.
German:
Er nahm das Messer und stach dem andern damit ins Auge.
See
Lang et al. 2012
×