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Ability verb and epistemic possibility
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Ability verb cannot express epistemic possibility
Example 58-71:
Yandi
lenda
kwenda.
Yandi
he/she
lenda
can
kwenda.
go
He can/may go.
Example 58-72:
Mono banza yandi me(ne) kwenda.
Mono
I
banza
think
yandi
he/she
me(ne)
prf
kwenda.
go
He/She must have gone.
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Kikongo-Kituba
by
Salikoko S. Mufwene
cite
Language:
Kikongo-Kituba
Feature:
Ability verb and epistemic possibility
Source:
Own knowledge
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