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Example 55-100
fam la ti don larzaṅ la ar/ek/avek so garsoṅ
fam
woman
la
def
ti
pst
don
give
larzaṅ
money
la
def
ar/ek/avek
to
so
her
garsoṅ
boy
The woman gave the money to her son.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Order of adposition and noun phrase: Prepositions
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Indirect-object construction
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