Value An expletive subject is used

Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
Parameter:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions
References
Faraclas 1996: 52-55

Examples

  1. Ì bí làyk se wì do̱n taya.
    Ì
    3sg.sbj.expl
    bí
    be
    làyk
    like
    se
    comp
    wì
    1pl.sbj
    do̱n
    compl
    taya.
    be.tired
    It seems that we have become tired.

    See Faraclas 1996: 53-54