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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Tayo
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
Examples
ta pa kone
ke
se mater pu peti-la?
ta
2sg
pa
neg
kone
know
ke
comp
se
presv
mater
mother
pu
prep
peti-la?
small-
dem
/
def
Don't you know that she is the mother of the small child?
See
Ehrhart 1993
: 199
ma kone
ke
ta vja nde la-mba
ma
1sg
kone
know
ke
comp
ta
2sg
vja
come
nde
from
la-mba
there
I know that you come from over there.
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