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Example 2-128
A kan de taki Jan ben sribi kaba.
A
3sg
kan
can
de
cop
taki
comp
Jan
John
ben
pst
sribi
sleep
kaba.
already
It’s possible that John was already asleep.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Winford 1997
: 94
Language:
Sranan
by
Donald Winford
and
Ingo Plag
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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