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Example 35-142
Ê tê ome ku sêbê kuji kume bwa so.
Ê
3sg
tê
have
ome
man
ku
rel
sêbê
know
kuji
cook
kume
food
bwa
good
so.
very
There are men that know how to cook very well. (OR: She has a husband who knows how to cook very well.)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own data
Language:
Santome
by
Tjerk Hagemeijer
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
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