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Example 56-31
I fer
avek kwa
?
I
pm
fer
make
avek
with
kwa?
what
With what did you/one do it?
French:
On l'a fait avec quoi? (Bollée & Rosalie 1994: 175)
Comment:
Here the verb, even though not marked for past, is interpreted as such, because the point of reference has been set in the past.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Bollée and Rosalie 1994
: 174
Language:
Seychelles Creole
by
Susanne Maria Michaelis
and
Marcel Rosalie
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase not initial
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