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Example 12-152
[Turtle, is there much turtle now?] No, don’t
have
turtle round.
[...]
[...]
don’t
neg
have
have
turtle
turtle
round.
around
[Are there many turtles here now?] No, there aren’t any turtles here.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Holm and Shilling 1982
: 145
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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