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Example 13-102
He
might
be can do that.
He
3sg
might
might
be
hab
can
can
do
do
that.
that
He probably can do that.
Type:
naturalistic spoken or elicited from speaker
Source:
Cunningham 1992
: 47
Language:
Gullah
by
Thomas B. Klein
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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