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Example 33-113
I pudi bin amanha.
I
3sg
pudi
can
bin
come
amanha.
tomorrow
Maybe he will come tomorrow.
Portuguese:
Ele amanhã talvez venha.
Comment:
The preferred means to express epistemic possibility is
Kin ki odja i na bin amanha.
[who REL see 3SG PROG come tomorrow] ‘Who knows, maybe he will come tomorrow…’
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Guinea-Bissau Kriyol
by
Incanha Intumbo
and
Liliana Inverno
and
John Holm
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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