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Example 8-147
Mi nuo
se
yu tek mi wan degedege fish.
Mi
1sg
nuo
know
se
comp
yu
2sg
tek
take
mi
1sg
wan
one
degedege
sole
fish.
fish
I know that you took my only fish.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
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