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Example 76-19
awoñ'a ca'vik ai'tcū, ila awoñ'a ekal'luk ta'llimat a'itcū
awoñ'a
I
ca'vik
knife
ai'tcū,
give
ila
he
awoñ'a
I
ekal'luk
fish
ta'llimat
five
a'itcū
give
I gave him a knife (for which) he gave me five fish.
Type:
reconstructed by documentalist
Source:
Stefánsson 1909
: 223
Language:
Eskimo Pidgin
by
Hein van der Voort
cite
Datapoints:
Order of cardinal numeral and noun: Numeral follows noun
Sortal numeral classifiers: The language has no numeral classifiers
Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns: Neutral alignment
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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