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Example 13-120
It is starvation dere.
It
expl
.
sbj
is
cop
starvation
starvation
dere.
there
There is starvation there.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 262
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
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