lemÃŒc. Lemizh grammar and dictionary

Exercise 2 in unit 16

Translate:
the child that got a bottle vs. the child that took a bottle

Solution

cnÌ dìy dwÌwy. vs.
child-acc1 give-dat-acc2 bottle-acc-acc3.
cnÌ díy wiì dwÌwy.
child-acc1 give-dat-acc2 PIn−1-dat-dat3a bottle-acc-acc3.
(Inner agentive, remember? Depending on the sentence in which this phrase occurs, we may be able to get rid of the pronoun with an inversion.)