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Example 4-146
A wenkiman soy a buku gi mi.
A
the
wenkiman
shop.assistant
soy
show
a
det
.
sg
buku
book
gi
give
mi.
me
The shop assistant showed me the book.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Goury and Migge 2003
: 131
Language:
Nengee
by
Bettina Migge
cite
Datapoints:
'Give' serial verb constructions: ‘Give’ in second position, recipient or beneficiary
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