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Example 52-1
mo manman bat timoun-yan
mo
my
manman
mother
bat
beat
timoun-yan
children-
art
My mother beat the children.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Jennings and Pfänder 2013+
Language:
Guyanais
by
Stefan Pfänder
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Marking of patient noun phrases: No marking of patient NPs
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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