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Example 41-148
tɔɔna eev ɔɔntotardiiya jaapuntaa, boos jaafalaavoo ricedntaa falaatu
tɔɔna
then
eev
1sg
ɔɔnta-otru-diiya
yesterday-other-day
jaa-puntaa,
pst
-ask
[boos
[
2sg
jaa-falaa
pst
-tell
voo
indf
ricad-ntaa
Richard-
loc
falaa-tu]
quot
-
pfv
]
Then the day before yesterday I asked [him], “Did you tell Richard?”
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1977
: 162
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer consists of ‘say’ plus some other marker
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