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Example 21-74
You can perhaps/possibly hear the engine.
You
2sg
can
can
perhaps/possibly
perhaps/possibly
hear
hear
the
det
engine.
engine
You can perhaps/possibly hear the engine.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge (Lisa Lim)
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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