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Example 11-190
Shi staat afa di oubia wuman moo moni.
Shi
3sg
.
f
staat
start
afa
offer
di
art
.
def
oubia
obeah
wuman
woman
moo
more
moni.
money
She started to offer the obeah woman more money.
Comment:
Oubia/Uobia/Obeah uman/woman
= sorceress
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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