Datapoint Michif/Complementizer with verbs of knowing

Complementizers in Michif are normally not independent words, but prefixes to specially inflected forms indicating that the clause is subordinate.

These verbs start with a prefix that can be called a complementizer, ee- (with variants), chi- or kaa-.

The complement can probably be introduced by a zero complementizer in a construction like 'he knows, I am good', or when an evidential is used.

Values

Complementizer not synchronically related to ‘say’

Example 75-242:
Robert kishkeehtam Mari eeyaahkoshiyit.
Robert
Robert
kishkeeht-am
know.it-3.sbj.3.obj
Mari
Mary
ee-aahkoshi-yi-t.
comp-be.ill-obv-3
Robert knows that Mary is ill.

Source: Fleury 2007

Example 75-244:
Kaawaapahtamen enn grus nwaenzh kikishkeehtaen li tonoer chimishipahtaakushit.
Kaa-waapaht-am-en
comp-see.it-3.obj-2.sbj
enn
indf.art.f.sg
grus
big
nwaenzh
could
ki-kishkeeht-aen
2-know-3
li
art.m.sg
tonoer
thunder
chi-mishi-pahtaakushi-t.
comp.fut-BIG-appear-3
When you see a big cloud, you know that thunder will appear. OR: When you see a thunderhead you know we're in for a thunderstorm.

Source: Laverdure and Allard 1983: 333

Confidence:
Very certain