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Example 71-89
Oe
paha
panipani kela wahine au!
Oe
2sg
paha
perhaps
panipani
have.sex
kela
det
wahine
wife
au!
1sg
.
poss
Maybe you slept with my wife!
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
own data 1900
Language:
Pidgin Hawaiian
by
Sarah J. Roberts
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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