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Example 56-82
Be ou papa kote i ti reste li, papa pour ou?
Be
but
ou
poss
.
2sg
papa
father
kote
where
i
3sg
ti
pst
reste
live
li,
3sg
.
obj
papa
father
pour
for
ou?
2sg
But your father, where did he live, your father?
French:
Mais votre père, où habitait-il? Votre père. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 169)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 168
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Adpositional phrase following the possessum
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