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Example 26-66
don swɛɹ in dɛɹ [...] bikaz samtin maɪd hæpɛn
don
don't
swɛɹ
swear
in
in
dɛɹ
there
[...]
[...]
bikaz
because
samtin
indf
maɪd
judg
hæpɛn
happen
Don't swear there [...] because something might happen.
Comment:
JUDG = judgement
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 129
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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