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Example 31-159
El fra-l
kuma
el e di Brava tanbe.
El
he
fra-l
say-him
kuma
that
el
he
e
is
di
from
Brava
Brava
tanbe.
too
He said that he's from Brava, too.
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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