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Example 21-73
You can hear the engine.
You
2sg
can
can
hear
hear
the
det
engine.
engine
You can hear the engine.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Lim 2004
: 45
Language:
Singlish
by
Lisa Lim
and
Umberto Ansaldo
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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