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Example 56-195
Pa bezwen kwar
pourdir
en zwazo i ponn toulezour.
Pa
neg
bezwen
need
kwar
believe
pourdir
comp
en
indf
zwazo
bird
i
pm
ponn
lay
toulezour.
every.day
(You) shouldn't believe that a bird lays (an egg) every day.
French:
Il ne faut pas croire qu'un oiseau pond tous les jours. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 197)
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 196
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Only 'think' complement has a complementizer
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