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Example 11-205
Dier
wil aalwiez aalwiez bii dat somting mait hapn tu yu.
Dier
there
wil
fut
aalwiez
always
aalwiez
always
bii
cop
.
inf
dat
comp
som-ting
some-thing
mait
might
hapn
happen
tu
to
yu.
2sg
There will always, always be the possibility that something might happen to you.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
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