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Example 25-84
Wot
hi got, bideo, o wot?
Wot
what
hi
3sg
got,
got
bideo,
video
o
or
wot?
what
What does she have, a video, or what? (referring to someone's mobile phone)
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. This example illustrates a sentence-initial object interrogative.
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
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