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Example 12-237
My grandmother say, If you like her, tell my mother - grandmother
that
he want marry me - bla bla bla, and all of this.
[...]
[...]
tell
tell[
imp
]
my
1sg
.
poss
mother
mother
-
grandmother
grandmother
that
comp
he
3sg
.
m
.
sbj
want
want
marry
marry
me
1sg
.
obj
[...].
[...]
[...] tell my mother - my grandmother that he wants to marry me [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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