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Value An expletive subject is used
Language:
Tok Pisin
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
Examples
Long Wara Sipik tu em i gat kain kain ol masalai nabaut i stap.
Long
prep
Wara
river
Sipik
Sepik
tu
also
em
expl
.
sbj
i
pm
gat
got
kain
kind
kain
kind
ol
pl
masalai
spirit
nabaut
about
i
pm
stap.
be
In the Sepik River area there are also all kinds of spirits.
See
nd
Bipo bipo tru i gat wanpla man.
Bipo
Before
bipo
before
tru
intens
i
pm
gat
got
wanpla
one
man.
man
A long long time ago there was a man.
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nd
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