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Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’
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Serial verb construction
Example 35-182:
Maya pinsa kwa pê blaku.
Maya
Mary
pinsa
push
kwa
thing
pê
put
blaku.
hole
Mary pushed the thing into the hole.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Santome
by
Tjerk Hagemeijer
cite
Language:
Santome
Feature:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’
Source:
Hagemeijer and Ogie 2011
;
Hagemeijer 2001
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