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Example 37-166
[...] jingantxi n'umatu sêbê
ya
Mene bii poto.
[...]
[...]
jingantxi
giant
na
loc
umatu
bushes
sêbê
know
ya
comp
Mene
Mene
bii
open
poto.
door
[...] the giant in the bushes knew that Mene had opened the door.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own data
Language:
Principense
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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