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Example 75-148
Namoya lii bitaen eekwa kiimiyeewak.
Namoya
neg
lii
pl
bitaen
cloth
eekwa
now
kii-miy-eew-ak.
pst
-give-3.
sbj
.3.
obj
-
pl
They did not give her any clothes.
Comment:
The verb 'to give' has different forms. There are two roots of the verb 'to give'.
Miy
- is used in ditransitives, whereas
meek-
is used when the benefactive is implicit and unspecified.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fleury 2007
Language:
Michif
by
Peter Bakker
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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