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Example 22-167
Ol i save
se
papa bilong ol i no bilong ples bilong mi.
Ol
3pl
i
pm
save
know
se
comp
papa
father
bilong
poss
ol
3pl
i
pm
no
neg
bilong
poss
ples
village
bilong
poss
mi.
1sg
They knew that their father was not from my village.
Comment:
This again is very restricted (East New Britain and New Ireland), and only a single token occurs in the corpus.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 2002
: 160, ENB F19
Language:
Tok Pisin
by
Geoff P. Smith
and
Jeff Siegel
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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