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Example 47-131
Awa tawata jobe.
Awa
water
tawata
pst
jobe.
rain
It was raining.
Comment:
The use of
jobe
'to rain' with a lexical subject
awa
'water' is common in the Aruban dialect.
Type:
both elicited and naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1990
: 46
Language:
Papiamentu
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Raining constructions: Rain rains
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