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Example 8-59
Fi-dem moni de pan di tiebl.
Fi-dem
for-
3pl
moni
money
de
cop
.
loc
pan
on
di
det
tiebl.
table
Their money is on the table.
Comment:
In this sentence
fi-dem
is contrastive. The sentence means something like: 'Their money is on the table (while the money belonging to an unnamed entity is elsewhere)'.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Adpositional phrase preceding the possessum
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