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Example 25-82
Wotaim
yu gota go hom [...] kantri?
Wotaim
when
yu
2sg
gota
fut
/
oblig
go
go
hom
home
[...]
[...]
kantri?
country
When will you go home to [your] country?
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the complex temporal interrogative pronoun
wot taim.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase initial
Interrogative pronouns: Two compound expressions
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