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‘Take’ serial verb constructions
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Instrument of the second verb, no resumptive pronoun
Example 8-134:
Siera tek bokit kech waata a di paip.
Siera
Sarah
tek
take
bokit
bucket
kech
catch
waata
water
a
at
di
det
paip.
pipe
Sara caught water at the pipe with a bucket.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
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Language:
Jamaican
Feature:
‘Take’ serial verb constructions
Source:
Own knowledge
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