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Example 55-90
[...] kitfwa li
kapav
tur boṅ
[...]
[...]
kitfwa
perhaps
li
3sg
kapav
mod
tur
find
boṅ
good
[...] sometimes that may have been good.
French:
[...] mais ça a parfois eu du bon, qui sait? (Ludwig et al. 2001: 229)
Comment:
The French translation given in the corpus is not very close to the text.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Ludwig et al. 2001
: 213
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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