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Example 12-146
[...] the PLP begin to give
scholarship to the poor
to go abroad.
[...]
[...]
the
def
.
art
PLP
PLP
begin
begin
to
to
give
give
scholarship
scholarship
to
to
the
def
.
art
poor
poor
to
to
go
go
abroad.
abroad
[...] the Progressive Liberal Party began to give scholarships to the poor to go abroad.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Indirect-object construction
Order of recipient and theme in ditransitive constructions: Subject – verb – theme – recipient
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