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Example 75-149
Sii fiy kaakweemeekit oonhin.
Sii
3pl
.
poss
fiy
daughter
kaakwee-meeki-t
try-give-3
oonhin.
those
She tries to give her daughters (to someone).
Comment:
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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