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Example 16-121
à go boro mɔni giv àm
à
1sg
.
sbj
go
go
boro
borrow
mɔni
money
giv
give
àm
3sg
.
obj
I go and borrow money for her.
Comment:
One reading of this is that
give
marks the beneficiary.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999
: 239
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
'Give' serial verb constructions: ‘Give’ in second position, recipient or beneficiary
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