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Example 13-119
It look like it been a great high hill.
It
expl
.
sbj
look
look
like
like
it
expl
.
sbj
been
pst
/
asp
a
a
great
great
high
high
hill.
hill
It looked like there was a great high hill.
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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