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Value An expletive subject is not used
Language:
Guyanais
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
Examples
gen timoun yé pa pouvé ké yé kò
gen
have
timoun
children
yé
they
pa
neg
pouvé
be.able
ké
with
yé
their
kò
body
There are children who are physically very weak.
See
Jennings and Pfänder 2013+
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