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Example 49-152
Iv pa kab di m sa.
Iv
Yves
pa
neg
kab
can
di
say
m
1sg
sa.
dem
Yves cannot tell me about it.
French:
Yves ne peut pas me le dire.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Dejean 1982
: 41
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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