Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 61-14
Yena hambile iphi?
Yena
she
hamb-ile
go-
pst
iphi?
where
Where did she go?
Comment:
This is a marked order. Usually interrogatives are sentence-initial.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Field notes Mesthrie
Language:
Fanakalo
by
Rajend Mesthrie
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase not initial
×