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Example 8-94
Di uman gi di bwai di fuud.
Di
det
uman
woman
gi
give
di
det
bwai
boy
di
det
fuud.
food.
The woman gave the boy the food.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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