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Example 5-166
shi tel am
se
ii go sok am
shi
3sg
tel
talk
am
3sg
.
obj
se
say
ii
3sg
go
will
sok
suck
am
3sg
.
obj
She told him that she would suck his blood.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 160, line 495
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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