Contribution: The ‘give’ event in Papuan languages

by Gerard P. Reesink

This dataset provides features of ditransitive constructions with the verb ‘give’ in 72 Papuan languages. It is based on the Appendix of Reesink (2013):

Reesink, Ger. 2013. Expressing the GIVE event in Papuan languages: A preliminary survey. Linguistic Typology 17(2). 217–266. (doi:10.1515/lity-2013-0010)

Name Glottocode Family Source Examples Constructions
Details L-Parameter Description Topics Representation
Details Name Title Author Year Languages