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Value An expletive subject is not used
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
Examples
деси тама наша нагарода.
Desi tama naʃa nagaroda.
Desi
here
tama
there
naʃa
1pl
nagaroda.
vegetable.garden
There were our vegetable gardens in all places.
See
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 272
Уотэта кипиталистэ ного была раньсе.
Woteta kipitalistə noga byla lan'ʃə.
Woteta
like.that
kipitalistə
capitalist
noga
many
byla
cop
.
pfv
lan'ʃə.
before
There were many capitalists of this kind in the old times.
See
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 245
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