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Example 56-184
Pa konnen
pourdir
i pe mor, i 'n mor.
Pa
neg
konnen
know
pourdir
comp
i
3sg
pe
prog
mor,
dead/die
i
3sg
'n
prf
mor.
dead/die
One didn't know whether he was going to die, (but) he died.
French:
On ne savait pas s'il allait mourir, mais il est mort. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 261)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 258f.
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer consists of ‘say’ plus some other marker
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