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Example 8-83
Maas Jan se im kyahn kom tumaro.
Maas
Mr.
Jan
John
se
say
im
3sg
kyahn
can
kom
come
tumaro.
tomorrow
Mr. John said he is able to come tomorrow.
Comment:
Ability verb, e.g.
he is well enough/strong enough to come
.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
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