Jacqueline Bunting

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jacqueline Bunting is involved.

Article

Bunting, Jacqueline 2009 ‘Give’ and take: How dative gi contributed to the decline of ditransitive taki Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:2, pp. 199–217 | Article

The Sranan verb taigi ‘say to, tell’ is used when a dative object is identified, but in the 18th and 19th centuries taki ‘say, tell, speak, talk’ served this function. This paper explores the early uses of taki alongside variants taki gi and taki na, which paired the optionally ditransitive verb… read more