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Example 48-176
¿I pa ké uté
nu
kumblá?
¿I
and
pa
for
ké
what
uté
you.
sg
nu
neg
kumblá?
buy
And why did you not buy (it)?
Spanish:
¿Y por qué (Usted) no lo compró?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Schwegler and Green 2007
: 286
Language:
Palenquero
by
Armin Schwegler
cite
Datapoints:
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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