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Example 5-4
stoov ke tap
stoov
stove
ke
poss
tap
top
top of stove
Comment:
Ke
is a loan morpheme from Bhojpuri and is used predominantly in the speech of rural people of Indian origin.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 68
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Order of possessor and possessum: Possessor-possessum
Marking of possessor noun phrases: Adpositional or case marking of possessor
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