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Example 27-120
Am nōit sa prāt
sē
a Tekoma a mata di kui.
Am
3sg
nōit
never
sa
fut
prāt
talk
sē
say
a
cop
Tekoma
Tekoma
a
pst
mata
kill
di
det
kui.
cow
He will never tell that it was Tekoma who killed the cow.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
van Diggelen 1978
: 71
Language:
Negerhollands
by
Robbert van Sluijs
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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