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Example 29-21
Wat het hy gesê?
Wat
what
het
pst
hy
3sg
.
nom
ge-sê?
ptcp
-said
What did he say? / What has he said?
Comment:
As Afrikaans has lost the distinction between the preterite and the perfect, the
het [...] ge-
form is, taken out of context, always ambiguous between a preterite and a perfect reading.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Afrikaans
by
Hans den Besten
and
Theresa Biberauer
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase initial
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