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Example 13-118
It look like it been gol all around.
It
expl
.
sbj
look
look
like
like
it
expl
.
sbj
been
been
gol
gold
all
all
around.
around
It looked like there was gold all around.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 272
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: An expletive subject is used
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