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Example 52-67
gen timoun yé pa pouvé ké yé kò
gen
have
timoun
children
yé
they
pa
neg
pouvé
be.able
ké
with
yé
their
kò
body
There are children who are physically very weak.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Jennings and Pfänder 2013+
Language:
Guyanais
by
Stefan Pfänder
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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