Datapoint Bahamian Creole/Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’

Values

At-rest marking is used to express motion-to

Example 12-200:
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.
Example 12-201:
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.
Example 12-202:
They was in the church.
They
3pl.sbj
was
cop.pst
in
prep
the
art
church.
church
They were in the church.
Confidence:
Certain