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Example 49-291
Yo di
ke
y ap tiye l kanmenm.
Yo
3pl
di
say
ke
comp
y
3pl
ap
inacc
tiye
kill
l
3sg
kanmenm.
still
They said that they'd kill him anyway.
French:
Ils ont dit qu'ils le tueraient malgré tout.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Valdman et al. (eds.) 2007
: 338
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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