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Value Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Parameter:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
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.
Shi nuo dat ah doh laik she.
Shi
she
nuo
know
dat
that
ah
I
doh
don't
laik
like
she.
her
She knows that I don't like her.
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