Datapoint Sri Lanka Portuguese/Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’

Dative (-pa) marking is used on the ditransitive recipient, but not on inanimate monotransitive patients. (The same marker -pa is used on animate patients, but this is left aside here.)

Values

Indirect-object construction

Example 41-188:
avara nosa mahanaaruntu um pesaam alaa ɔɔrta jatomaa
avara
now
nosa
1pl.gen
mahanaar-untu
son-loc
um
one
pesaam
person
alaa
there
ɔɔrta
land
jaa-tomaa
pst-buy
Now one of our sons has bought land there.
Example 41-2:
elispa inda nukutiraa noos
eli-s-pa
3.m-pl-acc
inda
yet
nuku-tiraa
neg-take
noos
1pl
We haven't engaged them yet. OR: We haven't taken them on as regular employees yet.

Source: Smith 1974-5: 1372

Example 41-41:
etuspa un diiyapa kiivoo tadaa vesli
etus-pa
3pl.hon-dat
uŋ
one
diiya-pa
day-dat
kii
what
voo
indf
ta-daa
prs-give
vesli
Wesley
Wesley is giving them something or other per day.

Source: Smith 1974-5: 1378

Confidence:
Very certain