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Value Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
Language:
Gullah
Parameter:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility
Examples
He
might
be can do that.
He
3sg
might
might
be
hab
can
can
do
do
that.
that
He probably can do that.
See
Cunningham 1992
: 47
ɒɪ cɪn sɪt dɒʊŋ.
ɒɪ
I
cɪn
can
sɪt
sit
dɒʊŋ.
down
I can [am able to] sit down.
See
Turner [1949] 2002
: 262
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