Datapoint Aboriginal English/Variant forms of dummy subject there in existential clauses

Variety: Aboriginal English
Feature: Variant forms of dummy subject there in existential clauses
Value: A - feature is pervasive or obligatory
Informants: Ian Malcolm

Examples

Example 3908:
...'e got some sand...
...there is some sand...'

Source: Kaldor and Malcom 1979: 422

Example 3909:
E got too much petrol sniffers round 'ere
There are lots of petrol sniffers...'

Source: Butcher 2008: 632

Example 3910:
They got a new railway station in Laverton
There is a new railway station in Laverton'

Source: Anthropological Museum nd: Leonora L 14 1