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Example 17-1
À plant nyam.
À
1sg
.
sbj
plant
plant
nyam.
yam
I planted yams.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Faraclas 1996
: 71
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
by
Nicholas Faraclas
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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