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Example 76-53
iglu silatani
iglu
house
silatani
outside
(It is) outside the house.
Comment:
The brackets are from Stefánsson (1909: 230). This is not a really relevant example, because it is a subject-predicate pattern, not an existential construction.
Type:
reconstructed by documentalist
Source:
Stefánsson 1909
: 230
Language:
Eskimo Pidgin
by
Hein van der Voort
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is not used
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