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Example 66-111
Go biçaya dia Americaring edatang
kəta.
Go
1sg
biçaya
believe
dia
3sg
America-ring
America-from
e-datang
pst
-come
kəta.
comp
I think that he came 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 knowing: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Only 'think' complement has a complementizer
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