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Example 30-135
Dentu kel lagúa, ten un pédra-mármi, [...].
Dentu
in
kel=lagúa
dem
.
sg
=lake
ten
have
un=pédra-mármi,
a=stone-marble
[...].
[...]
In this lake, there lies a stone of marble, [...].
Comment:
More examples can be found in Lang (2002), s.v.
ten
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
da Silva 1987
: 162
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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