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Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’
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Serial verb construction
Example 37-139:
Mene
saa
Maa
pwê
toka.
Mene
Mene
saa
pull
Maa
Maa
pwê
put
toka.
hole
Mene pulled Maa down into the hole.
Source:
Maurer 2009
Example 37-140:
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 [...].
Source:
Günther 1973
: 140
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Principense
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Language:
Principense
Feature:
Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’
Source:
Maurer 2009
: 122ff.
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