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Expletive subject of existential verb
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An expletive subject is not used
Example 2-154:
Merki no de srefisrefi a foto.
Merki
milk
no
neg
de
cop
srefisrefi
at.all
a
loc
foto.
city
There isn’t any milk at all in town.
Source:
Nickel and Wilner 1984
: 21
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Language:
Sranan
Feature:
Expletive subject of existential verb
Source:
Nickel and Wilner 1984
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