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Example 40-81
El pudz-o kas
pəkə boj.
El
3sg
pudz-o
place-
pst
kas
rind
pəkə
obj
.that
boj.
ox
He gave the rind to that ox.
Comment:
In this sentence, the indirect object is marked by
p
(V)
-
. This sentence is taken from the story told by Angelin Rosario.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Unpublished story
Language:
Korlai
by
J. Clancy Clements
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Indirect-object construction
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