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Example 56-187
(...) i konnen
pourdir
sa dizef pa pour son fanm
(...)
(...)
i
3sg
konnen
know
pourdir
comp
sa
dem
dizef
egg
pa
neg
pour
for
son
3sg
.
poss
fanm
female
(...) He knows that these eggs are his mate's.
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: Complementizer consists of ‘say’ plus some other marker
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