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Example 41-140
aka tudu etus faya
lo
daa
aka
that
tudu
all
etus
3pl
.
m
faya
do
lo-daa
fut
-give
All that they will do for you.
Comment:
'All that' refers to various household repairs, including whitewashing the walls and repairing the pump. Thus this is a reasonable example of a beneficiary rather than a recipient.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 1424
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
'Give' serial verb constructions: ‘Give’ in second position, recipient or beneficiary
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