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Example 3-76
A soi taa di womi siki.
A
3sg
soi
seem
taa
that
di
def
.
sg
womi
man
siki.
sick
It seems that the man is sick.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1994
: 107
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: An expletive subject is used
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