Example 39-22

Ikəl di ki yo viw a use tiŋ muyt sɔl.
Ikəl
dem
di
day
ki
rel
yo
1sg
vi-w
see-pst
a
acc
use
2
t-iŋ
exist-pst
muyt
much
sɔl.
sun
The day that I saw you was very sunny.
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, according to the role of the arguments in question.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Cardoso 2009: 244