Instrumental Expressions (Feature 69)
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Feature Annotation
Instruments such as a knife, hammer, finger, water in ‘cut with a knife’, ‘hit with a hammer’, ‘open with her fingers’ or ‘extinguish with water’ are expressend in three main ways in the languages of the world:
– by an instrumental adposition (value 1),
– by an instrumental serial verb (value 2; see APiCS Glossary, "serial verb construction") or
– by an instrumental case (value 3).
Additional remarks
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Values
| Value | Value Annotation | |
| 1 | Instrumental adposition | Ternateño Ja kortá éli kel pan kun kutʃílju. [pfv cut he the bread with knife] ‘He cut the bread with a knife.’ |
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| 2 | Instrumental serial verb | Principense Eli ja tomá faka kotra kandri. [she pfv take knife cut meat] ‘She cut the meat with a knife.’ |
| 3 | Instrumental case | Russian Mozhno pisat' karandash-om. [one.can write pencil-instr] 'One can write with a pencil.' |
| 4 | Other | (Please give details in the “General comments” field.) |
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