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Example 25-83
We
yu go,
wijei
jed pleis?
We
where
yu
3sg
go,
go
wij-ei
which-
dir
jed
dem
pleis?
place
Where do you go, which way is that place?
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the locative and allative interrogative pronouns.
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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