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Example 57-95
la ndi kom sa ke la vja
la
3sg
ndi
say
kom
like
sa
this
ke
comp
la
3sg
vja
come
(S)he says that (s)he will come.
French:
Il/elle dit qu’il/elle vient.
Comment:
There is no clear example of an indirect construction in Sabine Ehrhart's corpus. The boundary between direct and indirect speech is rather fuzzy.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ehrhart 1993
: 227
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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