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Example 41-155
kii jafaya falaa saba eli?
kii
what
jaa-faya
pst
-do
falaa
quot
saba
know
eli?
3sg
.
m
Does he know what he did?
Comment:
This is a polar question: The question word
kii
remains in the embedded clause (i.e. the meaning is NOT 'What do you know he did?')
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Smith 1974-5
: 5312
Language:
Sri Lanka Portuguese
by
Ian R. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
Complementizer with verbs of knowing: Complementizer identical to bare ‘say’
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
Savvy: A savvy word exists
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