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Example 55-177
mo kóne ki li en kúyoṅ — Róber kóne ki Mári malád
mo
1sg
kóne
know
ki
comp
li
3sg
Ø
cop
en
indf
kúyoṅ
fool
—
Róber
Robert
kóne
know
ki
comp
Mári
Mary
Ø
cop
malád
ill
I know he is a fool. — Robert knows that Mary is ill.
Comment:
Acute marks the vowels of stressed syllables. See example 178 for comment.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are marked differently
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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