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Value An expletive subject is not used
Language:
Negerhollands
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
References
Stolz 1986
: 159
Examples
Ha gout apl bō di.
Ha
have
gout
gold
apl
apple
bō
on
di.
det
There are golden apples on it. / It has golden apples.
See
Josselin de Jong 1926
: 23
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