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Example 16-54
à hiɛ dɛ fud in tes
à
1sg
hiɛ
hear
dɛ
art
fud
food
in
3sg
.
poss
tes
taste
I smelled the food. OR: I smell the food (lit. I heard the food's taste).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999
: 211
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of possessor noun phrases: Person-indexing on possessum
'Hear' and 'smell': Overlap
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