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Example 25-87
Wanim
dea yu gugumbat?
Wanim
what
dea
there
yu
2sg
gug-um-bat?
cook-
tr
-
prog
What are you cooking there?
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Roper River. The example illustrates an information question with clause-initial interrogative.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Sandefur and Sandefur 1982
: 65
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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