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Example 50-183
Jan di-mwen ki i ka pati.
Jan
Jan
di-mwen
tell-
1sg
.
obj
ki
subord
i
3sg
ka
prog
pati.
leave.
Jan told me that he left.
French:
Jean m'a dit qui'il s'en allait. (Ludwig 1996: 348)
Comment:
This construction with the complementizer
ki
has been already frequently used in oral literature stories documented in the middle of the 20th century.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Ludwig 1996
: 348
Language:
Guadeloupean Creole
by
Serge Colot
and
Ralph Ludwig
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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