Datapoint Santome/'Give' serial verb constructions
Da also exists as a main verb ('to give') in the language. In the serial construction, however, syntactic testing shows that da behaves like a preposition, except for one case: when its complement is extracted (e.g. fronting), the verb is stranded without a spelled-out trace, corresponding to the 3SG pronoun. In this respect, da behaves like a verb, since the few prepositions proper are stranded with a spelled-out trace (Hagemeijer 2000).
Values 
‘Give’ in second position, recipient or beneficiary
- Example 35-194:
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Sela pa n toma zawa pa n ba pya da bô.Selamoodpaforn1sgtomatakezawaurinepaforn1sgbagopyaseedagivebô.2sgI must take your urine in order to check it for you.
Source: Hagemeijer 2000: 100
- Example 35-195:
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fatu se ku men bô môlê fika da bôfatucostumesedemkurelmenmotherbô2sg.possmôlêdiefikaleavedagivebô2sgthe costume that your mother left for you when she died
Source: Hagemeijer 2000: 101
- Example 35-196:
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Fogon ka sa kêntxi da non.Fogonkitchenkaipfvsabekêntxihotdagivenon.1plThe kitchen gets hot for us.
- Confidence:
- Very certain