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Example 20-132
[...] but he say no wanchy see master.
[...]
[...]
but
but
he
3sg
say
say
no
neg
wanchy
want
see
see
master.
master
[...] but he said he didn't want to see the master.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE1 corpus (Baker 2003a). The translation is ours.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Loines 1953
: 144
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: No complementizer
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