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Example 33-128
I ten
un igreja na e prasa.
I
3sg
ten
have
un
a
igreja
church
na
in
e
this
prasa.
town
There is a church in this town.
Portuguese:
Há uma igreja nesta vila.
Comment:
Existential
ten
'there is/are' can take the third singular pronoun
i
as its subject.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Guinea-Bissau Kriyol
by
Incanha Intumbo
and
Liliana Inverno
and
John Holm
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
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