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Example 23-71
oli putum long kakae blong mama blong mi
oli
agr
putum
put
long
prep
kakae
food
blong
poss
mama
mother
blong
poss
mi
1sg
[They] put [it] into my mother's food.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Adpositional phrase following the possessum
Marking of possessor noun phrases: Adpositional or case marking of possessor
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