Value Indirect-object construction

Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
Parameter:
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’

Examples

  1. avara nosa mahanaaruntu um pesaam alaa ɔɔrta jatomaa
    avara
    now
    nosa
    1pl.gen
    mahanaar-untu
    son-loc
    um
    one
    pesaam
    person
    alaa
    there
    ɔɔrta
    land
    jaa-tomaa
    pst-buy
    Now one of our sons has bought land there.
  2. elispa inda nukutiraa noos
    eli-s-pa
    3.m-pl-acc
    inda
    yet
    nuku-tiraa
    neg-take
    noos
    1pl
    We haven't engaged them yet. OR: We haven't taken them on as regular employees yet.

    See Smith 1974-5: 1372

  3. etuspa un diiyapa kiivoo tadaa vesli
    etus-pa
    3pl.hon-dat
    uŋ
    one
    diiya-pa
    day-dat
    kii
    what
    voo
    indf
    ta-daa
    prs-give
    vesli
    Wesley
    Wesley is giving them something or other per day.

    See Smith 1974-5: 1378