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Example 42-92
eli sabé nadá ati ila grandi
eli
3sg
sabé
know
nadá
swim
ati
until
ila
island
grandi
big
He is able to swim to Big Island.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own fieldwork 1980-1981, 2009
Language:
Papiá Kristang
by
Alan N. Baxter
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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