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Example 49-30
Msye souse tout san bourik la.
Msye
mister
souse
suck
tout
all
san
blood
bourik
donkey
la.
def
He sucked all the blood of the donkey.
French:
Il suça tout le sang de l'âne.
Comment:
This word comes from the French
monsieur
and can also fulfil other functions apart from pronominal substitution.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fattier 1996
: 229
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Order of possessor and possessum: Possessum-possessor
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: No gender distinctions
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