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Example 26-67
ju don waʃ jo hɛa kaz id maid fal af
ju
2sg
don
don't
waʃ
wash
jo
2sg
.
poss
hɛa
hair
kaz
cause
id
3sg
maid
specul
.
judg
fal
fall
af
off
You don't wash your hair because it might fall off.
Comment:
SPECUL = speculative JUDG = judgement
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Velupillai 2003
: 128
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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