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Example 5-2
kostomo gyal chirin
kostomo
customer
gyal
girl
chirin
children
customers' daughters OR: daughters of customers
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 180 (line 736)
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Order of possessor and possessum: Possessor-possessum
Marking of possessor noun phrases: No marking
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