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Example 50-97
I pé vini dèmen, kon i pé pa vini osi.
I
3sg
pé
can
vini
come
dèmen,
tomorrow
kon
as
i
3sg
pé
can
pa
neg
vini
come
osi.
also
He may come tomorrow, as well as he may not come.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Guadeloupean Creole
by
Serge Colot
and
Ralph Ludwig
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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