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Example 49-108
jenou an m
jenou
knee
an
prep
m
1sg
.
poss
my knee
French:
mon genou
Comment:
This represents a construction used in northern Haiti.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fattier 1998
: 846
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Adpositional phrase following the possessum
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