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Example 59-293
kogara ni aga awe so, ahunda lo, atene, kogara, mo ke nyon' ye?!
kogara
in-law
ni
det
a-ga
pm
-come
awe
already
so,
thus
a-hunda
pm
-ask
lo,
3sg
a-tene,
pm
-say
kogara,
in-law
mo
2sg
ke
cop
nyon'
drink
ye?!
thing
When his mother-in-law had come, he asked her, "Mother-in-law would you like something to drink?!"
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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