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Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization edited by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton ISBN 1-57473-414-8 library binding vii + 220 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Wendell A. Kimper Question Formation in the Karonga Dialect of Tumbuka 75-79 (complete pdf) This paper discusses several interesting aspects of question formation in Tumbuka, a Bantu language spoken in Malawi. In Tumbuka only subjects can be Wh-moved or extracted, and their landing site may precede or follow the clause, while objects and adjuncts remain in situ. Multiple Wh-words are prohibited in the same clause, and relative complementizers play a role in questions formed with cleft constructions. |