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Value An expletive subject is not used
Language:
Seychelles Creole
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
Examples
Ti annan koson osi laba?
Ti
pst
annan
exist
koson
pig
osi
also
laba?
there
Were there also pigs?
French:
Il y avait aussi des cochons là-bas? (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 203)
See
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 202
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