Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 33-129
*Kasa ten vs. I ten un kasa.
*Kasa
house
ten
exist
vs.
vs.
I
3sg
ten
exist
un
indf
kasa.
house
NOT: *Exists a house vs. There is a house.
Portuguese:
Há uma casa.
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
×