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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of speaking
References
Winer 1993
: 24
Examples
None a allyuh cyah say
dat
de risk eh dere.
None
none
a
of
allyuh
2pl
cyah
can.
neg
say
say
dat
that
de
det
risk
risk
eh
neg
dere.
loc
None of you can't say that the risk is not there.
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