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Example 56-110
Mon ti
kapab
annan 'pepre dan trez an par la.
Mon
1sg
ti
pst
kapab
can
annan
have
'pepre
about
dan
in
trez
thirteen
an
year
par
through
la.
there
I was probably about thirteen years old.
French:
Je devais avoir environ treize ans. (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 137)
Comment:
This examples illustrates the epistemic use of
kapab
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 136
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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