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Example 9-70
Onli
i
hɛd dɛ owta di mod.
Onli
only
i
its
hɛd
head
dɛ
cop
.
loc
owta
out.of
di
the
mod.
mud
Only the (bottle) neck was protruding out of the sand bottom.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1983
: 37
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of pronominal possessors: Preceding word
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation
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