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Example 65-81
зафтра може там больница ходи поумилайла.
Zaftəra moʒe tam bal'niʧa xadi poumilajla.
Zaftəra
tomorrow
moʒe
maybe
tam
there
bal'niʧa
hospital
xadi
go
poumilaj-la.
die-
pfv
It may happen that tomorrow one may fall ill and die.
Comment:
These are general reflections on the human life. The example was recorded by E. Perekhvalskaya and V. Belikov in 1991 (Khabarovskij region).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Perekhvalskaya 2008
: 264
Language:
Chinese Pidgin Russian
by
Elena Perekhvalskaya
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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