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Example 9-127
Yu had di djadj yu had dis seym gavmɛn laya.
Yu
2sg
had
had
di
the
djadj
judge
yu
2sg
had
had
dis
this
seym
same
gavmɛn
government
laya.
lawyer
There was the judge, and there was that government lawyer.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1992
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Expletive subject of existential verb: An expletive subject is used
Existential verb and transitive possession verb: Identity
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