Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’

Language:
Tayo
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing

Examples

  1. 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

  2. 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.