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Example 22-13
Em i givim tupla fedas i go
long
mama.
Em
3sg
i
pm
givim
give
tu-pla
two-
mod
fedas
feather
i
pm
go
go
long
prep
mama.
mother
He gave two feathers to his mother.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
nd
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Indirect-object construction
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