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Example 75-54
Kiinipaahishin ana, ahpo eetikwee.
Kii-nipaa-ishi-n
pst
-die-fall-
3sg
ana,
that.one.
anim
ahpo
or
eetikwee.
apparently
Maybe he fell down dead, I don't know.
Comment:
Ahpo eetikwee
(
ahpeetikwee
) is idiomatic and means 'I don't know'. It expresses epistemic possibility mainly or exclusively for past events. This is a monotransitive clause.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fleury 2007
Language:
Michif
by
Peter Bakker
cite
Datapoints:
Gender distinctions in personal pronouns: In 3rd person singular and plural only
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’: Double-object construction
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