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Example 59-170
gi Nzapa oko alingbi ti sara so
gi
only
Nzapa
God
oko
one
a-lingbi
pm
-be.able
ti
of
sara
do
so
det
Only God can do that.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Taber and Samarin 1965
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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