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Example 36-75

Têtêuga tua taba pega.

Têtêuga

turtle

tua

take

taba

plank

pega.

nail

Turtle took the planks and nailed them.

Type:: naturalistic spoken
Source:: Maurer 1995: 168

Language:

Angolar by Philippe Maurer

Datapoints:

Marking of patient noun phrases: No marking of patient NPs
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction

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