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Example 68-78

Ada gula.

Ada

exist

gula.

sugar

There's sugar.

Type:: elicited from speaker
Source:: van Minde 1997: 220

Language:

Ambon Malay by Scott Paauw

Datapoints:

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

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