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Complementizer with verbs of knowing
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Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’ Frequency: 50.0%
Example 6-101:
Me been tink
say
da da Jackass way been da call he picninni.
Me been tink say da da Jackass way been da call he picninni.
1sg
ant
think
comp
Jackass
rel
ant
call
3sg
.
obj
child
I thought that was the Jackass which was calling its child.
Source:
Winer 1993
: 24
Confidence:
Unspecified
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Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’ Frequency: 50.0%
Example 6-66:
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.
Example 6-102:
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.
Confidence:
Unspecified
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
by
Susanne Mühleisen
cite
Language:
Trinidad English Creole
Feature:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing
Source:
Own corpus data
Winer 1993
: 24
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