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  • Language Family: Other Benue-Congo
  • Topic #1: Interrogatives
  • Topic #2: Syntax
A descriptive analysis of Àhàn interrogative sente A descriptive analysis of Àhàn interrogative sentences

Every language has a way of turning a positive statement to a question forms.
However, the way each language does this is based on parameter setting. Besides this, in
every language of the world there are polar questions and there are content questions. In
polar questions, yes or no answer is adequate as a response; while content questions
require sentential structure as an answer. In this paper, I describe the formation of the
polar questions and content questions in Àhàn, a language situated within Yorùbá speech
form, spoken in a particular quarter in Òmùò-Èkìtì, a town in Ekiti State, Southwest
Nigeria. I also show in this paper that Àhàn operates a kind of in-situ derivation in its
interrogative formation. However, I posit that the kind of Wh in-situ operated in the
language is different from that observed in Chinese and some other Asian languages.
Besides, I also show, in the paper, that while a language like Yorùbá and some other Kwa
languages use a focus marker in the formation of wh questions, Àhàn does not utilise a
focus marker.


Chaque langue a une manière de changer une phrase positive en une phrase
interrogative. Cependant, la manière dont chaque langue le fait est basée sur la fixation
d’un certain nombre de paramètres. A part cela, dans chaque langue du monde il y a des
questions polaires et des questions de fond. Dans les questions polaires, la réponse par un
oui ou un non est approprié ;tandis que les questions de fond requièrent une structure
syntaxique comme réponse. Dans cet article, nous décrivons la formation des questions
polaires et des question de fond en àhàn, un dialecte du Yorùbá parlé dans un quartier
spécifique de Òmùò-Èkìtì, un ville de l’Etat d’Ekiti, au sud-ouest du Nigéria. Nous
montrons également dans cet article que ce dialecte ahan effectue un genre de dérivation
in-situ dans la formation de l’interrogatif. Cependant, nous proposons que le genre de
Question in-situ opéré dans la langue est différent de celle observée en chinois et d’autres
langues d’Asie. En outre, nous montrons que, quand bien même une langue comme le
Yorùbá et quelques langues Kwa emploient la marque du focus dans la formation des
questions Q, la langue àhàn n’utilise pas de marqueur de focus.

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