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Example 29-193
Jan wil jou roman lees.
Jan
John
wil
wants
jou
2sg
.
poss
roman
novel
lees.
read.
inf
John wants to read your novel.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
‘Want’ complement subjects: The complement subject is left implicit
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