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Example 63-108
lábda shetán gi-já fi júwa
lábda
maybe
shetán
devil
gi-já
tam
-come
fi
in
júwa
house
Maybe the devil will enter the house.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Luffin 2005
: 208
Language:
Kinubi
by
Xavier Luffin
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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