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Example 11-173
[...] bot yu
kyaan
taak.
[...]
[...]
bot
but
yu
2sg
kyaan
can.
neg
taak.
talk
[...] but you mustn’t talk.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Nicaraguan Creole English
by
Angela Bartens
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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