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==== Interrogative Verbs ==== | |||
Interrogative verbs are an unusual feature of the Minhast verbal system, and are rare cross-linguistically but may be found in other languages such as Takic, a North American language from the Uto-Aztecan family. In many languages, certain interrogative words co-occur with certain verbs with high frequency. Using English as an example, the verbs in the questions "What happened?", "Where are you going?", "Why did you do it?" illustrate that certain verbs, when they take a WH-word as an argument, have a statistically higher probability of picking one or two WH-words above others. In Minhast, the Interrogative Verbs serve as a shortcut, precluding the need for constructing a whole interrogative sentence with at least two constituents, the WH-word and the verb it is serving as an argument to. | Interrogative verbs are an unusual feature of the Minhast verbal system, and are rare cross-linguistically but may be found in other languages such as Takic, a North American language from the Uto-Aztecan family. In many languages, certain interrogative words co-occur with certain verbs with high frequency. Using English as an example, the verbs in the questions "What happened?", "Where are you going?", "Why did you do it?" illustrate that certain verbs, when they take a WH-word as an argument, have a statistically higher probability of picking one or two WH-words above others. In Minhast, the Interrogative Verbs serve as a shortcut, precluding the need for constructing a whole interrogative sentence with at least two constituents, the WH-word and the verb it is serving as an argument to. | ||
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! style="text-align:left"| tumbehētaš? | ! style="text-align:left"| tumbehētaš? | ||
| "How long will you be there/How long will you be doing that?" | | "How long will you be there/How long will you be doing that?" | ||
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| ''tumbehē-tah-an=š'' <br/>[how.long.be.there-2S.ABS-INTRANS-IRREAL] | | ''tumbehē-tah-an=š'' <br/>[how.long.be.there-2S.ABS-INTRANS-IRREAL] | ||
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! style="text-align:left"| uzurtahaš? | ! style="text-align:left"| uzurtahaš? | ||
| "What do you think?" | | "What do you think?" | ||
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| ''uzur-tah-an=š'' <br/>[what.think-2S.ABS-INTRANS-IRREAL] | | ''uzur-tah-an=š'' <br/>[what.think-2S.ABS-INTRANS-IRREAL] | ||
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