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Example 9-110
I hia bowt wan ledi we ku kyu eni kaynda siknes.
I
3sg
hia
hear
bowt
about
wan
a
ledi
lady
we
rel
ku
can
kyu
cure
eni
any
kaynda
kind.of
siknes.
sickness
He heard about a lady who could cure any kind of illness.
Comment:
Here
ku
indicates ability. Note that
ku
is the neutral form for 'can' (and also for 'could').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1983
: 50
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility: Ability verb also expresses epistemic possibility
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