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Example 16-72
wataim à gò fìt gɛt mɔni?
wataim
when
à
1sg
gò
fut
/
irr
fìt
abil
gɛt
get
mɔni?
money
When will I be able to get money? OR: When will I possibly get the money?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Huber 1999
: 178
Language:
Ghanaian Pidgin English
by
Magnus Huber
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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