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Example 26-65
Speaker_A: ʃi was gudlukin – Speaker_B: jɛ æn ʃi kæn siŋ
Speaker_A:
Speaker_
a
:
ʃi
3sg
was
was
gudlukin
good.looking
–
–
Speaker_B:
Speaker_B:
jɛ
yeah
æn
and
ʃi
3sg
kæn
abil
siŋ
sing
Speaker A: She was good-looking. – Speaker B: Yeah, and she could sing.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 47
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
Predicative adjectives: Variable copula
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