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Example 26-78
gɛʔ big kaɪn ʃaks
gɛʔ
exist
big
big
kaɪn
kind
ʃak-s
shark-
pl
There are big sharks (here).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 163
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Identity
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