• Map-Legend:
  • left_per
  • left
  • insitu
  • preverbal
  • right
  • right_cleft
  • Mixed Data
  • No Data
LanguageQuestionSubquestionColorParameterValuePreference
Akan28eleft_per1
Amharic28einsitu1P
Amharic28epreverbal1S
Amharic28eright_cleft1S
Ika28eleft_per1NA
Bernese German28eleft_per1
Bwamu28eleft_per1P
Bwamu28einsitu1S
Czech28eleft_per1NA
Czech28epreverbal1NA
Jula28eleft_per1ND
Jula28einsitu1ND
Ninkaré28eleft_per1ND
Ninkaré28einsitu1ND
Finnish28eleft_per1
Gagauz28eleft_per1
Gagauz28eleft1
Gagauz28epreverbal1
Gagauz28eright1
Mongolian28einsitu1NA
Linxia Chinese28einsitu1
Huarong Chinese28einsitu1
Huarong Chinese28eright_cleft1
Ancash Quechua28eleft_per1NA
Hungarian28eleft_per1
Hungarian28eleft1
Hungarian28einsitu1
Hungarian28epreverbal1
Indonesian28eleft_per1NA
Indonesian28einsitu1NA
Indonesian28epreverbal1NA
Italian28eleft_per1
Italian28eleft1
Jejueo28eleft_per1nd
Jejueo28epreverbal1nd
Jejueo28eright1nd
Kangle Chinese28einsitu1
Kazakh28einsitu1NA
Standard Mandarin28einsitu1NA
Marathi28einsitu1S
Marathi28epreverbal1P
Marathi28eright1S
Mopan Maya28eleft_per1NA
Mooré28eleft_per1
Mooré28einsitu1
Nepali28eleft_per1P
Nepali28einsitu1P
Nepali28eright1S
Newari28eleft_per1
Kannada28eleft_per1
Kannada28eleft1
Kannada28einsitu1
Kannada28epreverbal1
Kannada28eright_cleft1
Polish28eleft_per1
Slovene28eleft_per1
Slovene28eleft0.5
Slovene28einsitu1
Slovene28epreverbal1
Slovene28eright1
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian28eleft_per1
Cochabamba Quechua28eleft_per1P
Cochabamba Quechua28epreverbal1S
English28eleft_per1
Standard German28eleft_per1
Thai28einsitu1NA
Tunen28eleft_per1ND
Tunen28einsitu1ND
Upper Sorbian28eleft_per1P
Upper Sorbian28epreverbal1S
Upper Sorbian28eright1S
Vietnamese28einsitu1NA
Oromo28eleft_per1
Oromo28einsitu1
Oromo28eright_cleft1

(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)

e) Time adverbial

When did Mary paint the portrait?

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).