Datapoint Pidgin Hawaiian/'Give' serial verb constructions

Examples 156 and 157 are not treated as examples of serial verbs because there is a possibility of syntactic dependency. The judgment is indicated as 'certain' and not 'very certain' because the corpus is not complete enough to be sure that the feature did not exist.

Values

No ‘give’ serials exist

Example 71-156:
Iaia kii kela beer haawi Henry Moore.
Iaia
2sg
kii
fetch
kela
det
beer
beer
haawi
give
Henry
Henry
Moore.
Moore
He fetched some beer for Henry Moore. OR: He fetched some beer to give to Henry Moore.
Example 71-157:
Iaia lawe mai haawi ia Henry alua omole.
Iaia
3sg
lawe
take
mai
dir
haawi
give
ia
obj
Henry
Henry
alua
two
omole.
bottle
He brought two bottles for Henry. OR: He brought and gave Henry two bottles.
Confidence:
Certain