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Example 25-305
Dei bin dali mi thadmob gel ba gajimbat klos
ba alabat biginini
na.
Dei
3pl
bin
pst
dali
tell:
tr
mi
1sg
thad-mob
dem
-
coll
gel
girl
ba
dat
gaj-im-bat
get-
tr
-
prog
klos
clothes
ba
dat
alabat
3pl
biginini
child
na.
now
They told me, those girls did, to get clothes for their children.
Comment:
Variety: Katherine. This example illustrates a beneficiary marked by a variant of the dative prepositioin.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Angelo et al. 1998
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
'Give' serial verb constructions: No ‘give’ serials exist
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