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Example 57-65
na a ŋgra laport ʃe mwa
na
exist
a
art
.
indf
ŋgra
big
laport
door
ʃe
prep
mwa
my.place
There is a big door at my place.
Comment:
This can be personalized by adding further elements:
na pa le ta pu nu okipe de twa
[EXIST NEG DEF time for 1PL look.after PREP 2SG] was translated by my informants as 'We do not have the time to look after you' (Ehrhart 1993: 253).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ehrhart 1993
: 173
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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