Value An expletive subject is not used

Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb

Examples

  1. 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

  2. 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