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Example 9-116
Krab waak onda wata i luk layk musa fu howaz.
Krab
crab
waak
walk
onda
under
wata
water
i
it
luk
look
layk
like
musa
must
fu
for
howaz.
hours
Crabs walk under water, it seems they do it (stay submerged) for hours.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1992
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Alignment of case marking of full noun phrases: Neutral alignment
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions: An expletive subject is used
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