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Example 21-53
Whose book is this? My one.
Whose
whose
book
book
is
cop
this?
dem
My
1sg
.
poss
one.
poss
Whose book is this? Mine.
Comment:
Postnominal
one
acts as double possessive marker. This is probably a calque of a Sinitic possessive marker/nominizer/relativizer.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Independent pronominal possessors: Special word plus dependent pronominal possessor
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