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Example 31-26
Unde
ki’N ta panha pa’N da fidju?
Unde
where
ki’N
that.I
ta
tam
panha
take
pa’N
for.I
da
give
fidju?
child
Where can I take from to give my child?
Comment:
Interrogative words tend to be followed by the particle
ki
although in some cases involving both argument and adverbial types of wh-words,
ki
may be absent.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
by
Marlyse Baptista
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase initial
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