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Example 3-66
A taánga téee. A sa hópo wán hóndo kiló.
A
3sg
taánga
strong
téee.
ideo
A
3sg
sa
mod
hópo
lift.up
wán
det
hóndo
hundred
kiló.
kilo
S/he is strong, s/he can lift a hundred kilos.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
van de Vate 2008
: 11
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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