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Example 54-204
Mé la di azot
ki
falé pa manzé sitrouy la.
Me
but
la
prf
di
say
azot
obl
.
3sg
k
comp
i
fin
fale
must.
pst
pa
neg
manze
eat
sitrouy
pumpkin
la.
dem
But she told them that they should not eat that pumpkin.
French:
Mais elle a dit qu'il ne fallait pas manger cette citrouille.
Comment:
This was the only example I found after going through half of the Barat et al. (1977) corpus (25,000 words).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 37
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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