Value An expletive subject is used

Language:
Negerhollands
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
References
Stolz 1986: 159

Examples

  1. Ēen tid di a ha ēn frou.
    Ēen
    art.indf
    tid
    time
    di
    det
    a
    pst
    ha
    have
    ēn
    art.indf
    frou.
    woman
    Once upon a time there was a woman.

    See Josselin de Jong 1926: 22