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Example 35-209
Tudu pôvô ska glita
kuma
a ka ntela motxi ku vivu.
Tudu
all
pôvô
people
ska
prog
glita
scream
kuma
comp
a
imprs
ka
ipfv
ntela
bury
motxi
dead
ku
with
vivu.
living
Everybody was screaming that they buried the dead and the living.
Comment:
IMPRS = impersonal pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own data
Language:
Santome
by
Tjerk Hagemeijer
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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