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Example 63-125

fí fíl

fí

exist

fíl

elephant

There are elephants.

Type:: naturalistic spoken
Source:: Luffin 2005: 313

Language:

Kinubi by Xavier Luffin

Datapoints:

Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used

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