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Example 49-172
Mari ba timoun yo yon jwèt.
Mari
Marie
ba
give
timoun
child
yo
def
.
pl
yon
indf
jwèt.
toy
Marie gave a toy to the children.
French:
Marie a donné un jouet aux enfants.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fattier and Sörés 1999
: 54
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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