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Value No complementizer
Language:
Haitian Creole
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
Examples
Nou konnen ou nan konplo. Pito w pale!
Nou
1pl
konnen
know
ou
2sg
nan
in
konplo.
conspiracy
Pito
rather
w
2sg
pale!
speak
We know that you participate in a conspiracy. You had better confess!
French:
Nous savons que tu participes à un complot. Il vaudrait mieux que tu parles!
See
Dejean 1982
: 54
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