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Example 23-93
mebi woman blong hem i holem faev tausen
mebi
perhaps
woman
woman
blong
poss
hem
3sg
i
agr
holem
hold
faev
five
tausen
thousand
His girlfriend took something like five thousand (vatu = money).
Comment:
I adapted this to remove false start.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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