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Example 30-117
N
sabe
kusia dretu.
N=sabe
1sg
=know
kusia
cook
dretu.
well
I can cook well.
German:
Ich kann anständig kochen.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Lang et al. 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
by
Jürgen Lang
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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