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Example 2-145
Dus dan a mati o gi den suma fu en a tori.
Dus
thus
dan
then
a
the
mati
friend
o
fut
gi
give
den
the.
pl
suma
people
fu
of
en
him
a
the
tori.
story
So then the friend will tell his relatives the story.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Winford data, Tape 8-a
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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