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Example 28-124
di wa da en man ha ʃi jɛrma
di
this
wa
pst
da
cop
en
one
man
man
ha
have
ʃi
3sg
.
poss
jɛrma
woman
This was a man (who) had his wife (i.e. who was married).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 377
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
Subject relative clauses: Zero and gap
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