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Example 41-94
eev mee jafalaa nikara tandaa
falaa
eev
1sg
mee
foc
jaa-falaa
pst
-say
[nikara
[
neg
.
imp
ta-andaa
prs
-go
falaa]
quot
]
I myself said, “Don’t go.”
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 5272
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and special negator
Intensifiers and reflexive pronouns: Intensifiers and reflexives are differentiated
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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