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Example 19-65
Nà de à kan sàbí mì
màmá
ìn
pàpá
ìn
fambul.
Nà
foc
de
there
à
1sg
.
sbj
kan
ipfv
sàbí
know
mì
1sg
.
poss
màmá
mother
ìn
3sg
.
poss
pàpá
father
ìn
3sg
.
poss
fambul.
family
It is there that I got to know my mother’s father’s family.
Comment:
This construction is specialized to the expression of ownership by an animate owner and the expression of kinship relations.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Yakpo 2009
: 235
Language:
Pichi
by
Kofi Yakpo
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of possessor noun phrases: Person-indexing on possessum
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