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Example 57-52
Le mbo ka nu travaje ave maʃin, nu pa mwaja ndʃu travaj a la ma.
Le
si
mbo
good
ka
when
nu
we
travaje
work
ave
with
maʃin,
machine
nu
1pl
pa
not
mwaja
abil
ndʃu
always
travaj
work
a
with
la
the
ma.
hand
It is good for us to work with the machine, we cannot always work manually.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Ehrhart 1993
: 248
Language:
Tayo
by
Sabine Ehrhart
and
Melanie Revis
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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