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Value An expletive subject is not used
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
Parameter:
Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions
References
nd
Examples
El fuji n'un barku pa,
parse
-m pa Angola.
El
he
fuji
escape
n'un
in.a
barku
boat
pa,
to
parse-m
seem-me
pa
to
Angola.
Angola
He escaped in a boat to, it seems to me, to Angola.
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