Value A

Language:

Aboriginal English

Parameter:

Variant forms of dummy subject there in existential clauses

Examples

1. ...'e got some sand...

   ...there is some sand...'

   See Kaldor and Malcom 1979: 422

2. E got too much petrol sniffers round 'ere

   There are lots of petrol sniffers...'

   See Butcher 2008: 632

3. They got a new railway station in Laverton

   There is a new railway station in Laverton'

   See Anthropological Museum nd: Leonora L 14 1