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Directional serial verb constructions with 'come' and 'go'
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‘Come’ and ‘go’ directionals exist
Example 8-133:
Maikal waak go a skuul.
Maikal
Michael
waak
walk
go
go
a
to
skuul.
school
Michael walked to school.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
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Language:
Jamaican
Feature:
Directional serial verb constructions with 'come' and 'go'
Source:
Own knowledge
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