Example 39-127

A el te med.
A
dat
el
3sg
te
exist.npst
med.
fear
He is scared (lit. To him is fear).
Comment:
In Diu Indo-Portuguese, there is a pair of nearly interchangeable prepositions (a and ) which mark not only indirect objects but also (animate and pronominal) direct objects and even subjects (of experiencer verbs). In the literature on South Asian languages, case markers with similar distributions are sometimes called 'Dative-Accusative' markers, and subject arguments which receive them are called 'Dative subjects'. To make glosses more readable, these markers are variously glossed here as DAT or ACC.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cardoso 2009: 181