4. SYNTAX
- maaohna kla baaja,ar jaaegaa.
mohan kal ba:za:r ja:yega:
Mohan tomorrow market go-3s-fut
Mohan will go to market tomorrow.
83a. maaohna kla baaja,ar jaaegaa?
mohan kal ba:za:r ja:yega:?
Will Mohan go to market tomorrow?
83b. baaja,ar jaaegaa?
ba:za:r ja:yega:?
Will (Mohan) go to market?
83c. maaohna kla jaaegaa?
mohan kal ja:yega:?
Will Mohan go tomorrow?
83d. maaohna jaaegaa?
mohan ja:yega:?
Will Mohan go (to the market tomorrow)?
83e. maaohna?
mohan?
(Will) Mohan (go to market tomorrow)?
The yes-no echo-questions may be preceded by the term accha: ‘it is
so’.
- vah kla idllaI sao Aaegaa?
vah kal dilli: se a:yega:.
he tomorrow Delhi-abl from come-fut
He will come from Delhi tomorrow.
84a. AcCa ̧ vah kla idllaI sao Aaegaa?
accha:, vah kal dilli: se a:yega:?
Is it so that he’ll come from Delhi tomorrow?
Using the same intonational patterns as in yes-no questions echoing
a statement, yes-no question echo-questions are formed either by
asking the previous speaker whether he/she asked the question or by
replacing the constituent under focus. Yes-no questions are
prompted by the previous speakers question and they do not merely