Example 16-2

dè go fɔ dagɔmba ʧif haus
dè
3pl
go
go
fɔ
to
dagɔmba
Dagomba
ʧif
chief
haus
house
They went to the Dagomba chief's house.
Comment:
Ghanaian Pidgin English has an alternative possessive construction with an intervening 3rd person possessive pronoun (possessor + possessive pronoun + possessum), but the order of possessor and possessum is the same.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999: 210