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Example 12-145
They married, she give this fellow all her husband clothes, you know?
[...]
[...]
she
3sg
.
f
give
give
this
dem
fellow
person
all
all
her
3sg
.
f
.
poss
husband
husband
clothes
clothes
[...].
[...]
[They got married, and] she gave this person all her husband’s clothes [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
Order of recipient and theme in ditransitive constructions: Subject – verb – recipient – theme
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