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Example 16-79
à gò faind sɔm mɔni giv mà mɔda
à
1sg
gò
fut
faind
find
sɔm
indf
mɔni
money
giv
give
mà
1sg
.
poss
mɔda
mother
I will (find and) give some money to my mother.
Comment:
Recipient
mà mɔda
marked by serialized verb
giv
. However, in my corpus there is no example of the kind
à gò giv sɔm mɔni giv mà mɔda.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
Order of recipient and theme in ditransitive constructions: Subject – verb – theme – recipient
'Give' serial verb constructions: ‘Give’ in second position, recipient or beneficiary
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