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Questions

Index of SIL publications on Questions listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Questions available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• BEEKMAN, John, author. 1972. Analyzing and translating the questions of the New Testament.
• EGNER, Inge, author. 1994. Politeness in language: The case of interrogatives.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Côte d’Ivoire

• EGNER, Inge, author. 1993. The role of contextual assumptions in WH-questions containing the particle ‘mɔ’ in Wɛɛ (Kru).
• PAESLER, Wolfgang, author. 1989. "How to distinguish statement and question in Beng."

Ghana

• HEWER, Judith, author. 1976. "Interrogative sentences in Kasem."

Americas

Brazil

• CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1975. Introduction to question words in Palikur.
• GREEN, Diana; GREEN, Harold G., authors. 1975. Question words in Palikur, or Why do I get such dumb answers?.
• GRIFFITHS, Glyn, author. 1991. WH—movement in Kadiwéu.
• KROEKER, Menno H., author. 1976. Response of the translation helper to direct questions.
• TAYLOR, John M., author. 1984. "A interrogação na língua kaiwá."  

Ecuador

• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H.; ORR, Carolyn, authors. 1992. "Clitic placement in content questions in Napo (Ecuadorian) Quichua."

Guatemala

• COLLINS, Nancy, author. Available: 2011; Created: 1981. Affirmatives and negatives.

Mexico

• COWAN, Marion M., author. 1960. "The translation of questions into Huixteco."
• EBERHARDT, Roy, author. 1999. Questions and inversion in Ocotepec Mixtec.  
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 2000. Polar questions in Seri.  

Peru

• FRANTZ, Donald G., author. 1973. "On question word movement."
• WEBER, Diana, author. 1976. Presuposiciones de preguntas en el quechua de Huánuco.  

Asia

Indonesia

• JONES, Linda K., author. 1991. "Question words in Yawa."
• LAIDIG, Wyn D., editor. 1999. Studies in Sulawesi Linguistics, part VI.
• MARYOTT, Kenneth R., author. 1999. "Tag questions and their answers in Sangir."

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• PHINNEMORE, Thomas R., author. 1989. Questions: You might get a lot less than you asked for.