jeff_l
(Jeff_L)
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12.3 Interrogatives 653
c. ma t-aemos t-üla-t-t
what? 3FeSgS-be.Reslt Fe-kind-Fe-FeSg
t-α t-allae-t di-hen
Fe-Dem.Sg 3FeSgS-be.Reslt-Partpl.FeSg there
'What is the kind that is there?' (= 'What kind is...?') [K-d]
12.3.4 'to where?, whence?' (mi)
This form for 'where?' is used only with transitive motion verbs that take a
complement denoting either the terminus or the point of origin. My data show
this mi with vkku- 'go to' (but not with -vjlu- 'go', directionally unspecified),
and with -vflu- 'leave, go from'. With -vflu-, mi (or any other object) specifies
the point of origin, the Because of the very narrow syntactic circumscription of
this mi, there is little danger of confusion with mi 'who?'.
(767) a. mi t-akke-d
where? 2S-go.to.Reslt-2SgS
'Where are you-Sg going?'
b. mi-\dd i-ffdl
where ?-\Centrip 3MaSgS-leave.Reslt
'Where does he come from?' (= 'Where is he from?')
In (767.a-b), mi is in object (rather than "adverbial") function, since the
verb is transitive.
12.3.5 'where?' (andek, andake, ande)
Adverbial 'where?' is expressed by andek (most dialects), andake (optional
variant in T-ka), or ande (both K-area dialects checked). In some dialects,
andek is also the 'which?' interrogative; see below, §12.3.8. An informant
suggested that the variant andake ends with an e truncated from the noun
e-daegg 'place?'. The an- is also arguably segmentable since this phoneme
sequence appears in a few other interrogatives. However, andek and andake
are sufficiently frozen that I do not usually hyphenate them.
For the R informant, andek was the isolation form ('where?'), while
andeke occurred in fuller expressions as in (768).
(768) andeke-\taet t-anhdy-aed
where?-\3FeSgO 2S-see.Reslt-2SgS
'Where did you see her?' (lit. "...have you seen her?") [R]
