WU-Type Construction in Karaja

This paper studies the left periphery of the clause in Karaja, a Macro-Je stock language spoken by about 3,000 people on and around the Bananal Island in Central Brazil. We analyze interrogative constructions of the Wh and yes/no types, topic and focus constructions, as well as constructions with th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maia, Marcus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 2000-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26773