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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Principense
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
References
Maurer 2009
: 160ff.
Examples
[...] jingantxi n'umatu sêbê
ya
Mene bii poto.
[...]
[...]
jingantxi
giant
na
loc
umatu
bushes
sêbê
know
ya
comp
Mene
Mene
bii
open
poto.
door
[...] the giant in the bushes knew that Mene had opened the door.
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