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Chapter 6: Content Questions

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Eng English glosses
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6.1 Content Questions

A content question is one that asks for some specific kind of information other than just yes or no. A content question may have the same structure as the corresponding statement, with the question word where the answer would go. The complete list of content question words follows:

Word Tag Gloss Notes
ke CQ.I "what" pronoun
ki CQ.A "who(m)" pronoun
kio CQ.Pos "whose" possessive determiner
eke CQ.L "where" locational verb
kan CQ.Tw "when" temporal adverb
kin CQ.Td "?" duration adverb?
ka CQ.Deg "how" degree
ko CQ.D "which" determiner

te vida ke?
"What did you see?"

ki auda Janno?
"Who heard John?"

vas vida ko kano?
"Which dog did you see?"

gatto eke?
"Where are the cats?"

para ke te vade?
"Why did you go?"

6.2 Discourse Deictics

The discourse deictics answer the question ko "which" (CQ.D). The discourse deictic to (Prx.D) refers to anything or anyone conceptually near the speaker while le (Dis.D) refers to anything or anyone conceptually distant and so (Med.D) refers to anything or anyone else.

Discourse deictics are used as 3rd person pronouns and occasionally as the corresponding determiners. Note that the deictics themselves don't distinguish gender or number.

me vida yo gatto. to dorme.
"I saw a cat. It was sleeping."


Vocabulary


Exercises

Translate into English:
1. te vida ko kano?.

Translate into TIAL:
1. .


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