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Value An expletive subject is used
Language:
Gullah
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
Examples
It is starvation dere.
It
expl
.
sbj
is
cop
starvation
starvation
dere.
there
There is starvation there.
See
Turner [1949] 2002
: 262
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