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Example 65-99
Уотэта кипиталистэ ного была раньсе.
Woteta kipitalistə noga byla lan'ʃə.
Woteta
like.that
kipitalistə
capitalist
noga
many
byla
cop
.
pfv
lan'ʃə.
before
There were many capitalists of this kind in the old times.
Comment:
The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and V. Baranova in 2004 (Primorskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 245
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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