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Athabaskan language familyWh- questions are often formed with in situ wh- question words—i.e., with the wh- word in the position expected of a corresponding noun or adverbial. For example, the Tsek’ene question Tlįį ma nàghìì’àdla? ‘Whom did the dog bite?” (tlįį ‘dog’ + ma ‘whom’ + nàghìì’àdla ‘he/she/it…
Read MoreWh- questions are often formed with in situ wh- question words—i.e., with the wh- word in the position expected of a corresponding noun or adverbial. For example, the Tsek’ene question Tlįį ma nàghìì’àdla? ‘Whom did the dog bite?” (tlįį ‘dog’ + ma ‘whom’ + nàghìì’àdla ‘he/she/it…
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Uralic languagesNegative sentences and questionsIn Proto-Uralic, questions were formed with interrogative pronouns, beginning with *k- and *m-, illustrated by Finnish kuka ‘who,’ mikä ‘what’ and Hungarian ki ‘who,’ mi ‘what.’ Yes–no questions were formed by attaching an interrogative particle to the verb, as in Finnish mene-n-kö ‘am I going?’ and e-n-kö…
Read MoreIn Proto-Uralic, questions were formed with interrogative pronouns, beginning with *k- and *m-, illustrated by Finnish kuka ‘who,’ mikä ‘what’ and Hungarian ki ‘who,’ mi ‘what.’ Yes–no questions were formed by attaching an interrogative particle to the verb, as in Finnish mene-n-kö ‘am I going?’ and e-n-kö…
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