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Example 39-106
Sɔ nɔs pɔd kume, jẽt də kaz.
Sɔ
only
nɔs
1pl
pɔd
can.
npst
kum-e,
eat-
inf
jẽt
people
də
of
kaz.
house
Only we can eat, the people of the house.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Cardoso 2004-2008
Language:
Diu Indo-Portuguese
by
Hugo C. Cardoso
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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