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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
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase not initial
Interrogative pronouns: Two compound expressions
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