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Example 27-1
Də mēⁿshi a kri ēn kin.
Də
det
mēⁿshi
girl
a
pst
kri
get
ēn
indf
kin.
child
The girl had a child.
Dutch:
Het meisje kreeg een kind.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Josselin de Jong 1926
: 12
Language:
Negerhollands
by
Robbert van Sluijs
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Indirect-object construction
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