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Example 53-213
Se pa bon rète li tou-sel konm sa, malad kapab pran dan la nwit, ou dan la journen.
Se
it.is
pa
neg
bon
good
rète
live
li
3sg
tou-sel
all-alone
konm
like
sa,
that
malad
illness
kapab
can
pran
take
dan
in
la
art
.
def
.
sg
nwit,
night
ou
or
dan
in
la
art
.
def
.
sg
journen.
day
It's not good for him to live alone like that, he might get sick in the night, or in the day.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Klingler 2003
: 403
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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