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Example 3-69
Di mujɛɛ naki di womi.
Di
def
.
sg
mujɛɛ
woman
naki
hit
di
def
.
sg
womi.
man
The woman hit the man.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
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