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Example 42-171
eli falá
ki
isi, tudo angkoza, ta subí presu
eli
3sg
falá
say
ki
comp
isi,
this
tudo
all
angkoza,
thing
ta
prog
subí
rise
presu
price
He/she used to say that this, everything, is rising in price.
Comment:
The use of the complementizer
ki
is rather infrequent. More commonly, verbs of speaking introduce their complement clauses without a complementizer.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Baxter 1988
: 200
Language:
Papiá Kristang
by
Alan N. Baxter
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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