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Example 28-101
en ka alwes jɛ di mingi ben ka
eni
3pl
kan
can
alwes
always
jɛn
be
di
the
mingi
water
ben
inside
ka
neg
They cannot be in the water forever.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kouwenberg 1994
: 616
Language:
Berbice Dutch
by
Silvia Kouwenberg
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases: Differentiation
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