Value Indirect-object construction

Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
Parameter:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’
References
Féral 1989: 67

Examples

  1. A don tchop bif.
    A
    1sg.sbj
    don
    pfv
    tchop
    eat
    bif.
    meat
    I have eaten meat.

    See Féral 1989: 65

  2. A 'don 'giv 'buk fo 'yi.
    A
    1sg.sbj
    don
    pfv
    giv
    give
    buk
    book
    fo
    for
    i.
    3sg.obl
    I have given her/him a book.

    See Féral 1989: 67