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Example 31-158
E fra
kumodi
es faze kuma un reunian.
E
He
fra
say
kumodi
that
es
they
faze
make
kuma
like
un
a
reunian.
reunion
He said that they made like a reunion.
Comment:
After verbs of elicitation, one can find
kumodi
,
kuma
,
ma
or
ki
. See the second sentence in this category for an example in which the verb of speaking selects
ki
based on corpus data.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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