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Example 52-5
mo achté liv ba to
mo
I
achté
buy
liv
book
ba
give
to
you
I bought a book for you.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own fieldwork 1995 & 2009
Language:
Guyanais
by
Stefan Pfänder
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Tense-aspect systems: Mixed aspectual-temporal system
'Give' serial verb constructions: ‘Give’ in second position, recipient or beneficiary
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