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Example 3-134
Mi sábi táa á búnu.
Mi
1sg
sábi
know
táa
say
á
3sg
.
neg
búnu.
good
I know that it is not good.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 155
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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