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Example 30-203
Djon sabe
ma
Maria sta duenti.
Djon
John
sabe
know
ma=Maria
comp
=Mary
sta
be
duenti.
ill
John knows that Mary is ill.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Lang et al. 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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