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Example 64-115
gal kan múmkin úo biakír
gal
say
kan
ant
múmkin
possible
úo
3sg
bi=akír
irr
=late
He said that he could have been late.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Manfredi 2005
: 181
Language:
Juba Arabic
by
Stefano Manfredi
and
Sara Petrollino
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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