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Example 54-119
Pétet fo alé de lot koté.
Petet
perhaps
fo
must
ale
go
dë-lot
other
kote.
side
Perhaps you have to go to the other side (in the other direction).
French:
Peut-être il faut aller de l'autre côté.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Barat et al. 1977
: 25
Language:
Reunion Creole
by
Annegret Bollée
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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