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Example 22-112
Long Wara Sipik tu em i gat kain kain ol masalai nabaut i stap.
Long
prep
Wara
river
Sipik
Sepik
tu
also
em
expl
.
sbj
i
pm
gat
got
kain
kind
kain
kind
ol
pl
masalai
spirit
nabaut
about
i
pm
stap.
be
In the Sepik River area there are also all kinds of spirits.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
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