Rara #93

Legacy number: 93

 Number  93
 Phenomenon  two object arguments in one construction showing the same syntactic and morphological behaviour as the single object of a primary transitive verb (lgs known as "symmetrical" or "true double accusative")
 Found in  (not all) Bantu lgs (Niger-Congo); Yagua (isolate, Peru); Martuthunira (Pama-Nyungan, Australian)
 Domain  syntax — grammatical relations: objects
 Type  rarum
 Keywords  direct object
 Source  Donohue, Mark (1996). Bajau: A symmetrical Austronesian language. Language 72: 782-793.
 Violates  none

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see also #94
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Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
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