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Example 28-157
di man biftɛ
bi
da orsa furkoputor
di
the
man
man
bifi-tɛ
say-
pfv
bi
say
da
cop
ori
3sg
so
foc
furkopu-tɛ
sell-
pfv
ori
3sg
The man said that it was he who had sold him.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 403
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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