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Example 53-355
Me Lapen, to di Bouki te p ale jwe.
Me
but
Lapen,
Rabbit
to
2sg
di
say
Bouki
Bouki
te
pst
p
neg
ale
fut
jwe.
play
But Rabbit, you said that Bouki was not going to play.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 398
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: No complementizer
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