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Example 32-29
K manera
(k) bosê tá mamentá kes mnin?
K
what
manera
way
(k)
(
comp
)
bosê
2sg
tá
pst
.
ipfv
mamentá
breastfeed
kes
det
mnin?
child
How did you breastfeed your children?
Portuguese:
Como amamentava os meninos?
Comment:
Here,
manera '
how' is possible
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Swolkien de Sousa 2012
Language:
Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
by
Dominika Swolkien
cite
Datapoints:
Interrogative pronouns: One compound expression
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