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Example 55-89
li
kapav
vin lakaz zordi
li
3sg
kapav
can
vin
come
lakaz
house
zordi
today
He may come home today (I was hoping he would come yesterday but he didn't turn up). OR: He can come home today (the bus strike which prevented him travelling yesterday is now over).
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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