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Example 32-161
El sabê
kma
vida e difisil.
El
3sg
sabê
know
kma
comp
vida
life
e
cop
difisil.
difficult
She knows that life is difficult.
Portuguese:
Ela sabe que a vida é difícil.
Comment:
Complementizers
k
and
ma
are possible.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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