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Example 28-170
o glof bi di tau kán bitjo
o
3sg
glofu
believe
bi
say
di
the
tau
snake
kán
cannot
biti
bite
o
3sg
He believed that the snake couldn't bite him.
Comment:
Kán
'cannot' represents a Creolese intrusion; see Kouwenberg (2000) for discussion.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 604
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Only 'think' complement has a complementizer
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