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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Early Sranan
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
References
Plag 1995
;
Plag 1993
;
van den Berg 2007
: 326ff
Examples
A hatie mie, mie no ben sabie
datie
joe no ben dé boen.
A
3sg
.
sbj
hati
hurt
mi,
1sg
mi
1sg
no
neg
ben
pst
sabi
know
dati
that
yu
2sg
no
neg
ben
pst
de
cop
bun.
good
I'm sorry that I didn't know that you were not well.
Dutch:
Het doet my leed dat ik uwe onpasselykheid niet geweeten hebt. [op.cit.]
See
Weygandt 1798
: 121
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