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Example 41-158
sahadeevaraaja tiña nukusaba
sahadeevaraaja
Sahadevaraja
tiña
pst
.be
nuku-saba
neg
-know
Don't [you] know Sahadevaraja was there?
Comment:
More commonly a quotative marker would be used, as in Example 159.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 2350
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: No complementizer
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