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Example 54-136
Lavé troi frer, troi garson [...].
Lave
pst
.
exist
trwa
three
frer,
brother
trwa
three
garson
boy
[...].
[...]
There were three brothers, three boys [...].
French:
Il y avait trois frères, trois garçons [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 39
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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