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Example 6-66
Shi nuo dat ah doh laik she.
Shi
she
nuo
know
dat
that
ah
I
doh
don't
laik
like
she.
her
She knows that I don't like her.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Informant
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
by
Susanne Mühleisen
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
Expression of pronominal subjects: Obligatory pronoun words
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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