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Example 8-1
Kien kil Iebl.
Kien
Cain
kil
kill
Iebl.
Abel
Cain killed Abel.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
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Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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