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