Example 66-113

Farida dεppe mawen rumana məpina kəmauan.
Farida
Farida
dε-pe
3sg-poss
mawen
son
ruma-na
house-dat
mə-pi-na
inf-go-dat
kəmauan.
necessity
Farida wants her son to go home.
Comment:
This is the equivalent of 'Farida wants that her son go home' which is actually ungrammatical in both English and Sri Lankan Malay. Note that mawen cannot be accusative-marked as the pronoun in the analogous English construction must be.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
M.T.M. Rihan, p.c.