Example 19-116

Bòyé fiba se è gɛt mɔ̀ní.
Bòyé
Boye
fiba
resemble
se
quot
è
3sg.sbj
gɛt
have
mɔ̀ní.
money
Boye seems to have money.
Comment:
The stative verb fiba employed with the meaning 'seem' takes a full complement clause. The subject of the complement clause has been raised into the subject position of the main clause without any structural change and is taken up by a resumptive subject pronoun in the complement clause.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Yakpo 2009: 417