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Value An expletive subject is used
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
References
Faraclas 1996
: 52-55
Examples
Ì ge̱t wo̱n nyam.
Ì
3sg
.
sbj
.
expl
ge̱t
have
wo̱n
one
nyam.
yam
There is one yam.
See
Faraclas 1996
: 53
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