Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 21-81
The guy gave the girl a bouquet of flowers.
The
det
guy
guy
gave
give.
pst
the
det
girl
girl
a
det
bouquet
bouquet
of
of
flower-s.
flower-
pl
The guy gave the girl a bouquet of flowers.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Lim 2004
: 49
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
Order of recipient and theme in ditransitive constructions: Subject – verb – recipient – theme
×