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Example 41-163
eev keriiya/kera boos taam kitavii/pervii; boos nukuvii
eev
1sg
keriiya/kera
pst
.want/want
[boos
[
2sg
taam
also
ki-ta-vii/per-vii];
nmlz
-
prs
-come/
inf
-come]
boos
2sg
nuku-vii
neg
-come
I wanted you to come too, [but] you didn't come.
Comment:
This is an elicited sentence and could be calqued from English. This speaker had a tendency to use English as a model in elicitation situations. There are no naturalistic examples of
kera
with a clausal complement having a different subject.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 2528
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Only 'think' complement has a complementizer
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