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Example 8-148
Jan waahn fi gaa skuul.
Jan
John
waahn
want
fi
inf
go-a
go-to
skuul.
school
John wants to go to school.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
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Datapoints:
‘Want’ complement subjects: The complement subject is left implicit
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