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Example 5-129
wan manggoo chrii bin de rait a hed a di biling
wan
one
manggoo
mango
chrii
tree
bin
ant
de
exist
rait
right
a
at
hed
head
a
of
di
the
biling
building
A big mango tree (that) was right in front of the building.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 148, lines 162-163
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
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