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Example 17-170
À tink
se
dè̱m go tawn.
À
1sg
.
sbj
tink
think
se
comp
dè̱m
3pl
.
sbj
go
go
tawn.
town
I think that they went to town.
Comment:
While both
tink
‘think’ and
want
‘want’ take
se
as a complementizer, the object clause that follows
tink
is in the indicative, while the object clause that follows
want
is in the subjunctive.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Faraclas 1996
: 213
Language:
Nigerian Pidgin
by
Nicholas Faraclas
cite
Datapoints:
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Identical complementizer
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