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Value An expletive subject is used
Language:
Belizean Creole
Parameter:
Expletive subject of existential verb
References
Escure 2004
Examples
I gat mora wan tiŋ
we
a de tiŋk bowt.
I
it
gat
got
mora
more.of
wan
one
tiŋ
thing
[we
[
rel
a
1sg
de
prog
tiŋk
think
bowt
about
_].
_]
There is more than one thing that I'm thinking about.
See
Escure 2004
: 531
Yu had di djadj yu had dis seym gavmɛn laya.
Yu
2sg
had
had
di
the
djadj
judge
yu
2sg
had
had
dis
this
seym
same
gavmɛn
government
laya.
lawyer
There was the judge, and there was that government lawyer.
See
Escure 1992
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