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Example 65-80
Сама не могу, кушай вари не умей его.
Sama ni magu, kuʃaj wari ni umej iwo.
Sama
self
ni
neg
magu,
can
kuʃaj
eat
wari
cook
ni
neg
umej
know.how
iwo.
3sg
She cannot live by herself, she cannot cook.
Comment:
The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and F. Eloeva in 1985 (Primorskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 236
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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