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Example 53-141
dan tan mon gran-papa a mo papa a mon
dan
in
tan
time
mon
1sg
.
poss
gran-papa
grand-father
a
poss
mo
1sg
.
poss
papa
father
a
poss
mon
1sg
in my great-grandfather's time
Comment:
This example also contains an example of Value 4 for this feature (Feature 38 "Marking of possessor noun phrases") (
tan mon gran-papa
).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 131
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of possessor noun phrases: Adpositional or case marking of possessor
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