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Example 51-89
Man pé fè sa ba'w.
Man
1sg
pé
can
fè
do
sa
it
ba='w.
give=
2sg
I can do it for you.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own fieldwork
Language:
Martinican Creole
by
Serge Colot
and
Ralph Ludwig
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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