3. |
ako |
  a-re |
mena-ko- i |
| |
they |
house-case |
are-PT-Que |
|
|
|
4. |
¸ia a |
baks |
-re |
mena |
-i |
|
it |
box |
- case |
is |
- que |
|
|
|
5.
|
¸ia
|
moyon |
uri
|
heke |
i |
| |
it |
one |
knife |
is |
que |
|
|
|
The alternation of Kana with
c&i may be seen in the following
interrogative sentences :
|
6. |
am |
bi
|
idi - l - a - m |
- kana |
| |
You |
book |
take-tense-cop-PT |
-Que |
|
|
|
7. |
ako |
a-re |
mena-ko |
-kana |
| |
they |
house-case |
are-PT |
-Que |
|
|
|
It may be seen that the interrogative marker
c&i or kana is added at the end of the
sentence with no other change in the sentence.
|
8. |
am |
bi |
idi |
-lam |
| |
‘You |
took |
the |
book’ |
|
9. |
am |
bi
|
idilam |
i |
/kana? |
| |
‘Did |
you |
take |
the |
book?’ |
|
The Yes-No kind of interrogative may also be
formed by having question intonation instead of the interrogative marker.
The pitch of the question intonation is raised at the end of the sentence as
shown below:
|
10. |
am |
jome |
yam |
‘Do |
you |
eat?’ |
|
6.9.2.1.
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WH - interrogative :
|
WH - interrogatives are formed with interrogative
pronouns. The syntactic functioning of the interrogative pronoun is the same
as the wordwhich will get by the answer. In otherwords, the interrogative
pronoun will occur in the tree structurewhere the category which is
questioned occurs. For example, if the interrogative pronoun is an adverb of
place okoare ‘where’, then the word which will be supplied by the answer
will also be an adverb of place. All the interrogative pronouns may be
placed in the same way while deriving the interrogative sentences except the
interrogative pronoun okoi ‘who’ which will be explained later. The
following are the wh- interrogatives formed with the interrogative pronouns.
|
kana ‘what’ is an object noun phrase.
|
11. |
ama |
nutum |
kana |
|
Your |
name |
what |
|
|
|
okoi ‘who’ is a Noun phrase whose head noun is
human.
|
12. |
okoi |
ama |
kui
|
heke |
|
who |
your |
wife |
is |
|
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