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13.	am	okoare	basa	- ja?t	- a	- m
	you	where	live	-asp	-cop	-PT

‘Where are you living?’

okoiya ‘whose’ is an object Noun phrase.

14.	hen	sadma	okoiya	heke
	‘this	horse	whose	is

‘Whose horse is this?

15.	okoike	‘whom’	is	an	object	Noun phrase.
	am	okoike	lel	- k - i	- a	- m
	you	whom	see	tense	-cop	-PT

‘Whom did you see?

16.	imtaŋ	‘when’	is an	adverb	of	time-
	ape	imtaŋ	bir	seno - tan	- a	- pe
	you	when	forest	go-asp	-cop	-PT

‘when are you going to the forest?’

iminaŋ }

‘how many’

is nummeral adjective

imin }

17.	am	iminaŋ	jagar	ituan	- a	-m
	You	how many	language	know	-cop	-PT

‘How many languages do you know?’

18.	am	kanarea	seno-tan	- a	- m
	You	why	go-asp	-cop	-PT

‘Why are you going?

okoa ‘which’ is an adjective

19.	am	okoa	bi	namy	- a	- m
	you	which	book	get	-cop	-PT

‘which book do you get?’

The interrogative pronoun okoi ‘who’ may occur either in the subject position or in the object position. For example,

20.	a?e	okoi	heke
	he	who	is
	okoi	a?e	heke

‘Who is he?’

6.9.2.2.

The syntactic functioning of the interrogative pronoun is the same which will get by the answer. In other words, the interrogative pronoun will occur in the tree structure where the category which is questioned occurs. For example, if the interrogative pronoun is an adjective okoa ‘which’, then the word which will be supplied by the answer will also be an adjective. All the wh - interrogative sentences may be derived like this. This may be seen in the following examples :

1.	am	kana	-m	jom	-a
	you	what	-PT	eat	-cop

‘What do you eat?’

aiŋ	ma·i	jom-a-iŋ
I	rice	eat-cop-PT

‘I eat rice’

2.	ia	a	okoia	heke
	this	house	whose	is

‘Whose house is this?’

ia	a	aiŋ-a	heke
this	house	I-case	is

‘This house is mine’

3.	am	okoi-ke	lel - k - i - a - m
	You	who-case	see-tense-cop-PT

‘Whom did you see?’

aiŋ	soma-ke	lel - l-i - a - iŋ
I	Soma-case	see-tense-cop-PT

‘I saw Soma’.

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