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Example 66-110
Go abiilang dia Americaring edatang kəta.
Go
1sg
a-biilang
prs
-say
dia
3sg
America-ring
America-
abl
e-datang
asp
-come
kəta.
comp
I know that he has come from America.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
M.T.M. Rihan, p.c.
Language:
Sri Lankan Malay
by
Peter Slomanson
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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