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Example 53-252
Ye te janmen gen pir blan dan la Louzyaen ye tou mele.
Ye
3pl
te
pst
janmen
never
gen
have
pir
pure
blan
white
dan
in
la
art
.
def
.
sg
Louzyaen
Louisiana
ye
3pl
tou
all
mele.
mixed
There have never been pure whites in Louisiana, they're all mixed.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Klingler 2003
: 309
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
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