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Example 3-133
A bì táki f'én kulé.
A
3sg
bì
tns
táki
talk
f'=én
for=
3sg
kulé.
run
He told him to run. (warning)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork data
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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