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Example 11-294
Ai haftu se
dat
Gaad toch im.
Ai
1sg
haf-tu
have-to
se
say
dat
comp
Gaad
God
toch
touch
im.
3sg
I must add that God touched him (= he has become a Christian).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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