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Example 17-167
À sàbi
(se)
dè̱m go tawn.
À
1sg
.
sbj
sàbi
know
(se)
(
comp
)
dè̱m
3sg
.
sbj
go
go
tawn.
town
I know that they went to town.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Faraclas 1996
: 213
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
by
Nicholas Faraclas
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: No complementizer
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