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Example 54-120
Ou lé pa kapab donn amoin.
Ou
2sg
le
cop
.
prs
pa
neg
kapab
able
donn
give
amwen.
me
You cannot give me (water).
French:
Tu n'es pas capable de m'en donner.
Comment:
Context: you cannot give me water without frogs because you have not found any.
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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