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Example 12-240
These children today can’t believe
say
you could be twelve years old and be a monitress.
[...]
[...]
children
children
today
today
can’t
neg
believe
believe
say
comp
you
2sg
.
sbj
could
could
be
cop
twelve
twelve
year-s
year-
pl
old
old
[...].
[...]
Children today can’t believe that one could be only twelve years old [but already work as an assistant teacher].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Holm and Shilling 1982
: 176
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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