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Example 41-42
asii mee kii see pooy teem
asii
so
mee
foc
kii
what
see
cond
pooy
habil
teem
be
It may be something like that.
Comment:
Context: This informant was speculating on why a certain country was not given self-government.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 1653
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Indefinite pronouns: Interrogative-based indefinites
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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