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Example 5-168
mi biliiv
si
di piknii ded
mi
1sg
biliiv
believe
si
say
di
the
piknii
child
ded
dead
I believed that the child had died.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 223, line 1090
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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