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Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’
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Serial verb construction plus preposition
Example 3-103:
Ko
hopo
mi
tja
go
a liba!
Ko
come
hopo
pull
mi
1sg
tja
carry
go
go
a
loc
liba!
top
Pull me up!
Example 3-104:
De bi
hai
hɛn
puu
a di baaku.
De
3pl
bi
tns
hai
pull
hɛn
3sg
puu
remove
a
loc
di
def
.
sg
baaku.
hole
They pulled him up out of the hole.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Language:
Saramaccan
Feature:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’
Source:
Fieldwork data
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