Datapoint Sri Lanka Portuguese/Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns

Values

Accusative alignment

Example 41-12:
aka viida etus vɛrgɔɔɲantu naa papiyaa
aka
that
viida
because
etus
3pl.hon
vɛrgɔɔɲa-ntu
shyness-loc
naa
neg.fut
papiyaa
speak
Therefore, in shyness they won’t talk. OR: Therefore, they are too shy to talk.

Source: Smith 1977: 150

Example 41-2:
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.

Source: Smith 1974-5: 1372

Example 41-75:
avara etus induŋa jatomaa teem, noov graandi uŋa
avara
now
etus
3pl.hon
inda
another
uŋa
one
jaa-tomaa
pst-buy
teem,
prf
noov
new
graandi
big
uŋa
one
Now they have bought another one, a new big one.

Source: Smith 1974-5: 5297

Confidence:
Very certain