Example 7-3

di pikni fo di woman
di
art
pikni
child/children
fo
for
di
art
woman
woman
the woman’s child(ren)
Comment:
See Examples 2 and 3 for Feature 38 "Marking of possessor noun phrases", where we illustrated that in this structure, the NP with postposed fo must only bear a definiteness marker.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Prescod 2004: 158