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Example 26-108
mama sæ a nokæn waʃ ma hɛa
mama
mama
sæ
said
a
1sg
nokæn
proh
waʃ
wash
ma
1sg
.
poss
hɛa
hair
Mama said that I wasn't allowed to wash my hair.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 117
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: No complementizer
'Body hair' and 'feather': Differentiation
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