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Example 23-150
Misis Kalo i talem
se
hem i reisim wan poultry farm long aelan.
Misis
Mrs
Kalo
Kalo
i
agr
talem
tell
se
say
hem
3sg
i
agr
reisim
raise
wan
indf
poultry
poultry
farm
farm
long
on
aelan.
island
Mrs Kalo said that she has (started) a poultry farm on her home island.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Vanuatu Weekly Hebdomadaire, 20 June 1998
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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