13. Exercises
| 13A. Translate each of the following into English. (Hint: in each of these the question word refers to the object.) 1. stáŋ ʔuč či místəxʷ. 2. stáŋ ʔuč či ƛ̓kʷə́təɬ. 3. cán caʔ ʔuč či sáʔətən. 4. stáŋ yaʔ ʔay̓ či šč̓ə́təs. 5. cán yaʔ ʔuč kʷi k̓ʷə́nnəxʷ hay. | 13B. Translate each of the following into English. (Hint: in some of these the question word refers to the object and in some it refers to the subject.) 1. stáŋ yaʔ ʔuč či ƛ̓kʷə́təxʷ. 2. stáŋ yaʔ ʔuč či ƛ̓kʷə́c. 3. cán caʔ ʔuč či šč̓ə́təs. 4. cán yaʔ ʔuč či mísnəxʷ. 5. stáŋ yaʔ ʔuč kʷi ƛ̓kʷít cə sčáʔčaʔɬ. |
| 1. What hit you? | 6. What did you hit? |
| 2. Who will choose you? | 7. Who will you choose? |
| 3. What lifted us? | 8. What did we lift? |
| 4. What broke it? | 9. What did it break? |
| 5. Who will hold me? | 10. Who will I hold? |
13D. Notice that the sentences in exercise 13C appear as pairs, side by side. The ones on the left (1 through 5) ask about the subject, while the ones on the right (6 through 10) ask about the object. Make three new pairs of sentences like these.