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Example 37-89
Zwan
sêbê
landa.
Zwan
Zwan
sêbê
know
landa.
swim
Zwan can swim (= he was taught how to swim).
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own data
Language:
Principense
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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