Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 12-132
[So you think that's the reason?] I 'most believe,
could
be, yeah.
I
1sg
.
sbj
'most
adv
believe,
believe
could
mod
.
aux
be
cop
.
inf
[...].
[...]
I almost believe [that], [that] could be [the reason], [yeah].
Comment:
Here
could
denotes epistemic possibility.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
×