Datapoint Angolar/Complementizer with verbs of knowing

Zero complementizer are only found with the non-factive verbs 'think', 'believe', and 'say', see also Feature 98 on complementizers with 'think' and 'want'.

Values

Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’

Example 36-133:
[...] n vatxê ma ê bê r'ê.
[...]
[...]
n
1sg
vatxê
believe
ma
comp
ê
3sg
bê
go
r'ê.
of=3sg
[...] I thought he had left.

Source: Maurer 1995: 114

Example 36-156:
[...] alê [...] na ta ma ê tha Têtêuga me ki tha bisiru pena situ e thêka êndê turu kwa si ma ê thêka fa.
[...]
[...]
alê
king
[...]
[...]
na
neg
ta
know
ma
comp
ê
expl
tha
be
Têtêuga
turtle
me
self
ki
rel
tha
be
bisiru
dressed
pena
feather
situ
animal
e
dem
thêka
prog
êndê
hear
turu
all
kwa
thing
si
dem
ma
rel
ê
he
thêka
prog
fa.
say
[...] the king [...] didn't know that it was Turtle himself who was covered with these feathers, hearing all what he was saying.
French: [...] le roi [...] ne savait pas que c'était Tortue qui était couvert de plumes, entendant tout ce qu'il disait.

Source: Maurer 1995: 164f.

Confidence:
Very certain