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Example 9-180
A tɛl dem pipl
da
nobadi ɛls wan dɛ da kamp.
A
1sg
tɛl
tell
dem
them
pipl
people
da
that
nobadi
nobody
ɛls
else
wan
fut
dɛ
loc
da
at
kamp.
camp
I told those people that nobody else will stay at the camp.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 2004
: 235
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking: Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
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