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Example 2-144
Granmama gi den pikin tori fa a ben de fosten.
Granmama
grandma
gi
give
den
the.
pl
pikin
child
tori
story
fa
how
a
it
ben
pst
de
cop
fosten.
long.ago
Grandmother told the children stories about how it was in the old days.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Wilner 1992
: 29
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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