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Example 28-108
lom kɛn jɛndə idri plɛkɛ
lombo
bad
kɛnɛ
person
jɛn-da
be-there
idri
every
plɛkɛ
place
Bad people are everywhere. OR: There are bad people everywhere.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 121
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
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