446 Chapter 14 Questions
b. Siti nyaba' buku e dhimma?
Siti AV.put book at where
‘Where did Siti put the book?’
c. Ba'eng dhari kamma?
you from where
‘Where are you from?’
In (26), direct objects are questioned. In (27), prepositional arguments of the
verbs berri' ‘give’, senneng ‘like’, and busen ‘bored’ are questioned. Benefac-
tive and instrumental adjuncts are questioned in (28), and locatives are ques-
tioned in (29). As shown in section 4.3.2, prepositional interrogatives can be
fronted; however, this is also a feature of non-interrogative PPs and is thus un-
related to their status as interrogatives.
Within NPs, possessors (30) and interrogative demonstratives (31) occur
in situ.
(30) a. Ali ma-becce' sapedha motor-ra sapa?
Ali AV.CS.-good motorcycle-DEF who
‘Whose motorcycle did Ali fix?’
b. Ebu' entar dha' bengko-na sapa?
mother go to house-DEF who
‘Whose house did Mother go to?’
(31) a. Ari a-berri' pesse ka kana' kamma?
Ari AV-give money to child which
‘Which child did Ari give money to?’
b. Hasan maca buku kamma?
Hasan AV.read book which
‘Which book did Hasan read?’
c. Tina senneng buwa apa?
Tina happy fruit what
‘What kind of fruit does Tina like?’
The questions in (31), especially the a- and b-examples, carry the presupposi-
tion that Ari gave money to a child and that Hasan read a book. Neither may in
fact be true, but the speaker presumes that the events at least should have trans-
pired. In this function, kamma/dhimma may also occur as the predicate in a
relative clause with the noun as head (32a).