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Example 41-123
aka doos kaambra mee
aka
that
doos
two
kaambra
room
mee
foc
That has only two rooms.
Comment:
The unmarked possessor is not common. Most likely, the correct analysis here is to take
aka
as a kind of topic.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 1467
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative possession: Topic
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