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Example 64-116
yúmkin úo birája min kulía bi lel
yúmkin
possible
úo
3sg
bi=rája
irr
=come.back
min
from
kulía
faculty
bi
at
lel
night
He may come back from the faculty at night.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Manfredi 2005
: 168
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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