Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’

Language:
Angolar
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
References
Maurer 1995: 114f.

Examples

  1. [...] n vatxê ma ê bê r'ê.
    [...]
    [...]
    n
    1sg
    vatxê
    believe
    ma
    comp
    ê
    3sg
    bê
    go
    r'ê.
    of=3sg
    [...] I thought he had left.

    See Maurer 1995: 114

  2. [...] alê [...] na ta ma ê tha Têtêuga me ki tha bisiru pena situ e thêka êndê turu kwa si ma ê thêka fa.
    [...]
    [...]
    alê
    king
    [...]
    [...]
    na
    neg
    ta
    know
    ma
    comp
    ê
    expl
    tha
    be
    Têtêuga
    turtle
    me
    self
    ki
    rel
    tha
    be
    bisiru
    dressed
    pena
    feather
    situ
    animal
    e
    dem
    thêka
    prog
    êndê
    hear
    turu
    all
    kwa
    thing
    si
    dem
    ma
    rel
    ê
    he
    thêka
    prog
    fa.
    say
    [...] the king [...] didn't know that it was Turtle himself who was covered with these feathers, hearing all what he was saying.
    French: [...] le roi [...] ne savait pas que c'était Tortue qui était couvert de plumes, entendant tout ce qu'il disait.

    See Maurer 1995: 164f.