Value Serial verb construction

Language:
Principense
Parameter:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’
References
Maurer 2009: 122ff.

Examples

  1. Mene saa Maa pwê toka.
    Mene
    Mene
    saa
    pull
    Maa
    Maa
    pwê
    put
    toka.
    hole
    Mene pulled Maa down into the hole.

    See Maurer 2009

  2. Jingantxi txya paage fo gayola [...].
    Jingantxi
    ogre
    txya
    extract
    paage
    parrot
    fo
    come.from
    gayola
    cage
    [...].
    [...]
    The ogre took the parrot out of the cage [...].

    See Günther 1973: 140