Datapoint Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago/Order of possessor and possessum
The order is invariably possessum-possessor. The possessor may be introduced without a preposition, by the preposition di (sometimes reduced to d' before a noun beginning with a vowel), or by
-l before a noun beginning with a consonant. This -l is not a phonotactically triggered variant of the preposition di. It only appears between noun phrases or between a heavy preposition and the following noun phrase, never in other contexts where the preposition di may appear. Examples: kása-l Pedro 'Peters house', dentu-l kása 'in the house'.
Dónu di nha bandera 'the owner of my flag' is possible and has a possessor-possessum order on the semantic level due to the lexical meaning of dónu 'owner'. However, grammatically the possessor is still nha bandera 'my flag' and the possessum dónu: 'my flag has an owner'.
Values 
Possessum-possessor
- Example 30-2:
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kása di Pedrukásahousedi=Pedruof=PeterPeter’s houseGerman: Peters Haus
Source: Lang et al. 2012
- Example 30-3:
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kása-l Pedrukása=lhouse=ofPedruPeterPeter’s houseGerman: Peters Haus
Source: Lang et al. 2012
- Example 30-4:
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kása PedrukásahousePedruPeterPeter’s houseGerman: Peters Haus
Source: Lang et al. 2012
- Example 30-16:
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Mai di si maridu kontenti ku el txeu, [...].Maimotherdi=si=mariduof=her=husbandkontentisatisfiedku=elwith=3sgtxeu,very[...].[...]Her husband's mother was very satified with her, [...].German: Die Mutter ihres Mannes war sehr zufrieden mit ihr, [...].
Source: da Silva 1987: 41
- Confidence:
- Very certain