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A note on wh-questions in Avatime

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natural language processing

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paper
This paper examines wh-question constructions in Avatime, an endangered Ghana Togo Mountain language. We focus on the different wh-strategies and island constraints and discuss these in relation to left peripheral elements such as question particles and complementizers.  

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