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Value An expletive subject is not used
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
References
Velupillai 2003
: 163
Examples
gɛʔ big kaɪn ʃaks
gɛʔ
exist
big
big
kaɪn
kind
ʃak-s
shark-
pl
There are big sharks (here).
See
Velupillai 2003
: 163
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