<div dir="ltr"><div><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<span></span></span></div><div>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">In Riau Indonesian, <i>sama</i>
may optionally occur on either the agent or the recipient, though not the
theme, of (unmarked) 'give'.<span>  </span>However, I've never observed
it to occur on both agent and recipient in the same sentence.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">David<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-ReferencesT" style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Gil, David
(2004) "Riau Indonesian <i>sama</i>,
Explorations in Macrofunctionality", in M. Haspelmath ed., <i>Coordinating Constructions</i>, Typological
Studies in Language 58, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 371-424.<span></span></span></p>





<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 2:12 PM Pun Ho Lui via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear linguists,<div><br></div><div>I am wondering if there is any case where in the ditransitive ‘give’ construction, the agent (giver) and recipient are marked by the same item, but the theme (or direct object) is marked differently, e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div>1SG-NOM give 2SG-NOM  pen</div><div>‘I gave you a pen.’</div><div><br></div><div>This pattern does not fit well in the <span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">conceptual space for core arguments (Croft 2001), so I expect it is not very common across languages.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Thank you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Warmest,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Pun Ho Lui Joe</span></div><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard"></span><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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