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Example 56-183
Si femel i konnen sa dizef pa pour li!
Si
if
femel
female
i
3sg
konnen
know
Ø
Ø
sa
dem
dizef
egg
pa
neg
pour
for
li!
her
If it is the female she knows (that) these eggs are not hers.
French:
Si c'est la femelle, elle sait que ce ne sont pas ses œufs à elle. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 193)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 192
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: No complementizer
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