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Example 53-211
"To kone danse?" Li di: "We mo kone".
"To
2sg
kone
know
danse?"
dance
Li
3sg
di:
say
"We
yes
mo
1sg
kone".
know
"You know how to dance?" He said: "Yes, I know".
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Neumann 1985
: 238
Language:
Louisiana Creole
by
Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
and
Thomas A. Klingler
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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