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Example 13-170
Tell me after
say
dey catch birds.
Tell
tell
me
me
after
after
say
that
dey
they
catch
catch
birds.
birds
[They] told me afterwards that they caught birds.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Turner [1949] 2002
: 267
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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