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Example 57-159
ta pa kone
ke
se mater pu peti-la?
ta
2sg
pa
neg
kone
know
ke
comp
se
presv
mater
mother
pu
prep
peti-la?
small-
dem
/
def
Don't you know that she is the mother of the small child?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ehrhart 1993
: 199
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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