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Example 76-68
pulauwȗk kissimi picuktu illuit?
pulauwȗk
flour
kissimi
only
picuktu
want
illuit?
you
Do you want nothing but flour?
Comment:
It is likely that the question mark in the original example was meant by Stefánsson (1909: 226) to indicate interrogative intonation.
Type:
reconstructed by documentalist
Source:
Stefánsson 1909
: 226
Language:
Eskimo Pidgin
by
Hein van der Voort
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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