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Example 32-82
N
podê
dó-b un izenpl.
N
1sg
podê
can
dó-b
give-
2sg
un
det
izenpl.
example
I can give you an example.
Portuguese:
Posso dar-te um exemplo.
Comment:
The verb
podê
comprises mental participant-internal ability.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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