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Example 28-110
o hab en taumama danga
o
3sg
habu
have
en
one
tau-mama
snake-mother
danga
there
There is a 'snakemother' there (i.e. a snake spirit).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 608
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Overlap
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