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Example 3-110
Dí báta kaí
dá
hen.
Dí
def
.
sg
báta
bottle
kaí
fall
dá
give
hen.
3sg
The bottle fell on his responsibility.
Comment:
Here
dá
introduces the ethical dative argument.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 165
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
'Give' serial verb constructions: ‘Give’ in second position, recipient or beneficiary
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