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Example 28-70
ɛkɛ; ju; ori; ʃi; enʃi/iʃi; jɛndɛ; eni/ini wari
ɛkɛ;
1sg
ju;
2sg
ori;
3sg
ʃi;
3sg
.
poss
enʃi/iʃi;
1pl
jɛndɛ;
2pl
eni/ini
3pl
wari
house
my; your; his, her, its; our; your(PL); their house
Comment:
A special possessive form of the pronoun exists only for the 3rd person singular (
ʃi
), and varies freely with the independent form (
ori
).
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 169
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Preceding word
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