Value Passive without verbal coding

Language:
Saramaccan
Parameter:
Passive constructions
References
Veenstra 2003: 276

Examples

  1. Dí dí gánia kíi, dí onkoóku kó kái.
    Dí
    then
    dí
    def.sg
    gánia
    chicken
    kíi,
    kill
    dí
    def.sg
    onkoóku
    misfortune
    kó
    come
    kái.
    fall
    At the same time the chicken was killed, misfortune started to happen.

    See Veenstra 2003: 276