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Example 62-43
hahali mikó ishirini i-lit-íye ki-
múru
ku-lá
hahali
16-other
mikó
years
ishirini
twenty
i-lit-íye
4-come-
prf
ki-múru
7-can
ku-lá
15-get.lost
Otherwise, in twenty years the language may get lost.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own field data 1993
Language:
Mixed Ma’a/Mbugu
by
Maarten Mous
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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