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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Sranan
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking
References
Plag 1993
: 36-53
;
Wilner 2007
: 148
Examples
Den boi taki
dati
den o kon tamara baka.
Den
art
.
pl
boi
boy
taki
say
dati
that
den
they
o
fut
kon
come
tamara
tomorrow
baka.
back
The boys said that they would come back tomorrow.
See
Wilner 2007
: 37
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