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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Creolese
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
References
Rickford 1987
: 148 (line 386)
;
Rickford 1987
: 223, line 1091
Examples
ii tel mi
dat
hou ii foget
ii
3sg
tel
tell
mi
1sg
dat
that
hou
how
ii
3sg
foget
forget
He told me that he had forgotten.
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