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Example 65-98
деси тама наша нагарода.
Desi tama naʃa nagaroda.
Desi
here
tama
there
naʃa
1pl
nagaroda.
vegetable.garden
There were our vegetable gardens in all places.
Comment:
Desi
and
tama
are used in their direct meaning 'here' and 'there'; the speaker wanted to show that vegetable gardens of the Chinese were in all places. The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and V. Belikov in 1991 (Khabarovskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 272
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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