Example 25-88

Bikos wi bin kamap wotaim? – Maidi ten aklak iya, im maidi leven aklak.
Bikos
because
wi
1pl
bin
pst
kamap
come
wotaim?
when
Maidi
maybe
ten
ten
aklak
o'clock
iya,
here
im
3sg
maidi
maybe
leven
eleven
aklak.
o'clock
Because we arrived when? – Maybe [around] 10 o'clock here, it might be 11 o'clock.
Comment:
Variety: Katherine. This example illustrates a content question with in situ interrogative pronoun - possibly a rhetorical question.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Angelo et al. 1998