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Example 22-113
Bipo bipo tru i gat wanpla man.
Bipo
Before
bipo
before
tru
intens
i
pm
gat
got
wanpla
one
man.
man
A long long time ago there was a man.
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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