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Example 55-112
li paret ki fin ena en kudeta
li
3sg
paret
seem
ki
that
fin
compl
ena
have
en
indf
kudeta
coup.d'état
It seems that there has been a coup d'état.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Kriegel 1996
: 78
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: An expletive subject is used
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