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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Sranan
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
References
Plag 1993
: 46-49
;
Wilner 2007
Examples
Di mi si
dati
a susu no e fiti mi, mi tyari en go kenki.
Di
when
mi
I
si
see
dati
that
a
art
susu
shoes
no
neg
e
asp
fiti
fit
mi,
me
mi
I
tyari
carry
en
and
go
go
kenki.
exchange
When I realized that the shoes didn't fit me, I went and exchanged them.
See
Wilner 2007
: 73
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