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Example 56-125
I pa ti paret ki Tom i la.
I
expl
pa
neg
ti
pst
paret
seem
ki
that
Tom
Tom
i
pm
la.
there.
It did not seem that Tom was there.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: An expletive subject is used
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