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Example 35-24
Kê kwa
ku ê ska fe nala?
Kê
what
kwa
thing
ku
"ku"
ê
3sg
ska
prog
fe
do
nala?
there
What is he doing there?
Comment:
Ku
, which we see in this example, occurs typically with fronted wh-constituents (here:
kê kwa
'what').
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own data
Language:
Santome
by
Tjerk Hagemeijer
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase initial
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