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Marking of pronominal possessors
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Preceding word Frequency: 70.0%
Example 13-70:
my
bacco
my
1sg
.
poss
bacco
tobacco
my tobacco
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 265
Confidence:
Very certain
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Adpositional phrase following the possessum Frequency: 30.0%
Example 13-71:
Cause dis son yah
ob mine
been dead.
Cause
because
dis
dem
.
prox
son
son
yah
here
ob
of
mine
mine
been
pst
/
asp
dead.
dead
Because this here son of mine has been dead. (Lk 15.24)
Source:
Anonymous 2005
: 269
Confidence:
Certain
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Language:
Gullah
Feature:
Marking of pronominal possessors
Source:
Own knowledge
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