Asking a question in Seuna
Y/N questions
There are three ways that a Y/N question can be asked.
1) HA opens the sentence.
2) KA closes the sentence. ? RO KA ... a question or a statement ?
3) A question can also be posed by giving a rising intonation at the end of the sentence (the same as English). There must be a special question mark when you use this method. Seuna does have a special mark, it is only used when you pose a question using method 3, if you pose a question using methods 1 or 2, the special mark is not used.
WH questions
what | juma |
who | jula |
when | juku |
where | juf |
how | jwale |
what type of | juta |
how many, how much ?? | juno |
which, what one, which one | juba |
ale = manner
Indefinite basic concepts
whatever | maju |
whoever | laju |
whenever | kuju |
wherever | fiju |
however | alju |
any type of | taju |
?? how many, how much ?? | juno |
?? whichever one ?? | baju |
When did you say. "When" indicates a qustion but also extreme indefiniteness
"I will come whenever you say" ... Is this really a RC ... time is never a very strongly held argument of a sentence but is always a very peripheral thing.
Question word => Indefinite pronoun
Question word => RC-marker
Index
- Introduction to Seuna
- Seuna : Chapter 1
- Seuna word shape
- The script of Seuna
- Seuna sentence structure
- Seuna pronouns
- Seuna nouns
- Seuna verbs (1)
- Seuna adjectives
- Seuna demonstratives
- Seuna verbs (2)
- Asking a question in Seuna
- Seuna relative clauses
- Seuna verbs (3)
- Methods for deriving words in Seuna
- List of all Seuna derivational affixes
- Numbers in Seuna
- Naming people in Seuna
- The Seuna calendar
- Seuna units