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Example 75-159
Apipree trwaa saan kiiayaaw daa la saanblii.
Apipree
approximately
trwaa
three
saan
hundred
kii-ayaa-w
pst
-be-3
daa
prep
.
loc
la
def
.
art
.
m
.
sg
saanblii.
assembly
There were approximately three hundred people at the meeting.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Laverdure and Allard 1983
: 25
Language:
Michif
by
Peter Bakker
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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