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Example 2-152
Mi taki dan a gersi leki mi dede kba.
Mi
1sg
taki
say
dan
then
a
it
gersi
look.like
leki
like
mi
1sg
dede
dead
kba.
already
I said, “Then it looks like I’m already dead.”
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Winford data, Tape 30-a
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: An expletive subject is used
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