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Example 18-75
Ndikum no
fit
draif moto.
Ndikum
Ndikum
no
neg
fit
be.able
draif
drive
moto.
car
Ndikum cannot drive a car.
Type:
published source
Source:
Ayafor 2008
: 439
Language:
Cameroon Pidgin English
by
Anne Schröder
cite
Datapoints:
Order of subject, object, and verb: Subject-verb-object (SVO)
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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