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Value No complementizer
Language:
Early Sranan
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking
References
Plag 1995
;
Plag 1993
;
van den Berg 2007
: 316ff
Examples
A takki, hem no komm.
A
3sg
.
sbj
taki,
say
en
3sg
no
neg
kon.
come
He says that he (himself) will not come.
Latin:
Dicit, se non venturum. German: Er sagt (von sich selbst ), dass er nicht kommt. [op.cit.]
See
Schumann 1783
: 65
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