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Example 59-294
zo wa la atene mo ga zo wa?
zo
person
wa
who
la
top
a-tene
pm
-say
mo
2sg
ga
come
zo
person
wa
who
Who was it who told you to come?
Comment:
This example is included only to illustrate another use of the verb
tene
.
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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