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Example 39-112
Leopard foy murde pə lion.
<Leopard>
leopard
foy
go.
pst
murd-e
bite-
inf
pə
dat
<lion>.
lion
The leopard went and bit the lion.
Comment:
Leopard
and
lion
are taken from English.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cardoso 2009
: 195
Language:
Diu Indo-Portuguese
by
Hugo C. Cardoso
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of patient noun phrases: Only animate patient NPs are marked
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Accusative alignment
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