Datapoint Sri Lankan Malay/Complements of 'think' and 'want'

Sentences with 'want' have no complementizer, but take an infinitival complement.

In the context of Examples 112 and 111, biCaya (lit. 'believe') is the most appropriate verb.

Values

Only 'think' complement has a complementizer

Example 66-111:
Go biçaya dia Americaring edatang kəta.
Go
1sg
biçaya
believe
dia
3sg
America-ring
America-from
e-datang
pst-come
kəta.
comp
I think that he came from America.
Example 66-112:
Farida dεppe mawen ruma ka aðuuðung kəta abicaya.
Farida
Farida
dε-pe
3sg-poss
mawen
son
ruma
house
ka
in
a-ðuuðung
prs-loc
kəta
comp
a-bicaya.
prs-believe
Farida thinks that her son is at home.
Example 66-113:
Farida dεppe mawen rumana məpina kəmauan.
Farida
Farida
dε-pe
3sg-poss
mawen
son
ruma-na
house-dat
mə-pi-na
inf-go-dat
kəmauan.
necessity
Farida wants her son to go home.
Example 66-114:
Goðang dia Klumbu na mədatang na kəmauan.
Go-ðang
1sg-dat
dia
3sg
Klumbu
Colombo
na
to
mə-datang
inf-come
na
to
kəmauan.
want
I want him to come to Colombo.
Confidence:
Very certain