Re: ANADEWism? interrogative mood
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 22, 2004, 18:58 |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:38:23 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> >Contemplating having a distinct set of verb forms for questions - not
> >just a particle or a word-order inversion, but an inflection on the
> >verb. What natlangs do this?
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> I think tamoul uses a suffix ("-a" if I remember) on the verb for yes/no
> questions but the others questions use interrogative words.
Finnish has -ko/-kö (IIRC) for yes/no questions... but I'm not sure
whether that's an inflection as such.
(Klingon has -'a', but that's not a natlang.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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