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==Polar Questions==
 
==Polar Questions==
   
Polar questions can seemingly be formed with a sentence-final boundary H added to normal (gradually falling) intonation. Syntactic means of forming questions are unclear at this point.
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Polar questions can seemingly be formed with a sentence-final boundary H added to normal (gradually falling) intonation. Syntactic means of forming polar questions are unclear at this point.
   
 
==WH Questions==
 
==WH Questions==

Revision as of 11:29, 25 October 2012

Polar Questions

Polar questions can seemingly be formed with a sentence-final boundary H added to normal (gradually falling) intonation. Syntactic means of forming polar questions are unclear at this point.

WH Questions

Work has yet to be done here. WH-questions are (unsurprisingly) formed with the use of WH-words, which appear to be completely unrelated to the subordinating pronouns (e.g. te).