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Example 60-89
bato bazalákí ebelé
bato
persons
ba-zal-ákí
3pl
-be-
pst
ebelé
many
There were many people.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Lingala
by
Michael Meeuwis
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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