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Basque interrogatives #3

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mlforcada opened this issue Feb 1, 2019 · 0 comments
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Basque interrogatives #3

mlforcada opened this issue Feb 1, 2019 · 0 comments
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I believe Feature 93A "Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions" has the wrong value ("Interrogative phrases not obligatorily initial") for Basque. Basque interrogative phrases, both of the "no-" (nor, nori, nork, non, nondik, nora, etc.) or of the "ze-" form (zer, zein, etc.) or phrases containing them systematically appear at the beginning of the sentence:

Patxik Liburua erosi du
Patxi-ERG Book-DET-ABS bought has-it
'Patxi has bought a book"

Zer erosi du Patxik?
What-ABS bought has-it Patxi-ERG
'What has Patxi bought?'

This seems to be the general behaviour, although there is a description of dialects that do not behave so: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539650/pdf

@xrotwang xrotwang transferred this issue from clld/wals-data Jan 14, 2020
@xrotwang xrotwang added the wontfix This will not be worked on label Feb 14, 2020
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