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Example 12-153
Only
be
three live here, my husband and just that little grand.
Only
only
be
cop
.
inf
three
three
live
live
here
here
[...]
[...]
There are only three (people) living here, [my husband (and me) and that little grandchild].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Holm and Shilling 1982
: 148
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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