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Example 5-127
jos de ii bin ga wan kookno chrii
jos
just
de
there
ii
3sg
bin
ant
ga
have
wan
a
kookno
coconut
chrii
tree
Just there, there was a coconut tree.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 147, line 368
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
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