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Example 21-85
There is food on the table.
There
there
is
be.
3sg
food
food
on
on
the
det
table.
table
There is food on the table.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
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