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  • left_per
  • left
  • insitu
  • preverbal
  • right
  • right_cleft
  • Mixed Data
  • No Data
LanguageQuestionSubquestionColorParameterValuePreference
Akan28bleft_per1
Amharic28bleft_per1P
Amharic28bleft1S
Amharic28binsitu1S
Ika28binsitu1
Bernese German28bleft_per1
Bwamu28bleft_per1
Czech28bleft_per1UP
Czech28binsitu1UP
Jula28binsitu1
Ninkaré28bleft_per1
Finnish28bleft_per1
Gagauz28bleft_per1UP
Gagauz28bleft1UP
Gagauz28bright1UP
Gagauz28bright_cleft1UP
Mongolian28binsitu1NA
Linxia Chinese28binsitu1
Huarong Chinese28binsitu1UP
Huarong Chinese28bright_cleft1UP
Ancash Quechua28bleft_per1
Hungarian28bleft_per1UP
Hungarian28bleft1UP
Hungarian28bpreverbal1UP
Indonesian28bleft_per1UP
Indonesian28bright_cleft1UP
Italian28bleft_per1could also be in situ
Jejueo28bleft_per1UP
Jejueo28binsitu1UP
Jejueo28bpreverbal1UP
Jejueo28bright_cleft1UP
Kangle Chinese28binsitu1
Kazakh28binsitu1
Standard Mandarin28binsitu1
Marathi28bleft_per1S
Marathi28binsitu1P
Marathi28bright1S
Mopan Maya28bleft_per1
Mooré28bleft_per1
Kurux28bleft_per1S
Kurux28bleft1P
Kurux28bpreverbal1S
Kurux28bright1
Nepali28bleft_per1P
Nepali28binsitu1P
Nepali28bpreverbal1S
Nepali28bright1S
Newari28binsitu1P
Newari28bpreverbal1S
Polish28bleft_per1
Slovene28bleft_per1
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian28bleft_per1
Cochabamba Quechua28bleft_per1P
Cochabamba Quechua28bpreverbal1S
English28bleft_per1
Standard German28bleft_per1
Thai28binsitu1
Tunen28bleft_per1
Upper Sorbian28binsitu1
Vietnamese28binsitu1
Oromo28bleft_per1UP
Oromo28bpreverbal1UP
Oromo28bright_cleft1UP

(28) Placement of interrogatives in content questions

Alternatives to be checked: movement of the interrogative phrase to the left periphery / movement to the left, but not necessarily to the periphery / interrogative phrase remains in situ / interrogative phrase in preverbal position / displacement to the right (often connected with a cleft-like structure)

b) Asking for a subject in an intransitive clause

Who worked yesterday?

Background: This addresses movement (and scrambling) of interrogative phrases, which is more common in V-O languages than in O-V languages (except for perhaps South America and Australia).