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Example 37-88
Txi
ka
po
fêzê kwisê.
Txi
2sg
ka
ipfv
po
can
fêzê
do
kwisê.
this
You can do this. OR: You are able to do this.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Maurer 2009
: 73
Language:
Principense
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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