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Example 35-212
Ê na ta sêbê
kuma
kwa sa pe dê fa.
Ê
3sg
na
neg
ta
pst
sêbê
know
kuma
comp
kwa
thing
sa
be
pe
father
dê
3sg
.
poss
fa.
neg
He didn’t know that it was his father.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own data
Language:
Santome
by
Tjerk Hagemeijer
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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