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Example 5-126
mii granfaada bin gat plees a filisiti bilid
mii
1sg
.
poss
granfaada
grandfather
bin
ant
gat
have
plees
place
a
at
filisiti
Felicity
bilid
Village
My grandfather had a place at Felicity Village.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 147, line 352
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative possession: Transitive
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
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