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Example 31-119
El fuji n'un barku pa,
parse
-m pa Angola.
El
he
fuji
escape
n'un
in.a
barku
boat
pa,
to
parse-m
seem-me
pa
to
Angola.
Angola
He escaped in a boat to, it seems to me, to Angola.
Comment:
We know that
parse
'to seem' is a verb because it can be modified by a ASP marker as in
ta parse-m
'it seems to me [...]' or by Negation
Ka parse-m
'it does not seem [...]'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: An expletive subject is not used
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