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Example 49-179
Li te gen twa zoranj, li ban m youn.
Li
3sg
te
ant
gen
have
twa
three
zoranj,
orange
li
3sg
ban
give
m
1sg
youn.
num
He had three oranges, he gave me one of them.
French:
Il avait trois oranges, il m'en a donné une.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Valdman et al. (eds.) 2007
: 71
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Order of recipient and theme in ditransitive constructions: Subject – verb – recipient – theme
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