ive interrogative verb enquiring about a whole situation / what [...]

Part of Speech	predicative
Phonetic Form	ive
Tanema Equivalent	ija
Lovono Equivalent	iwo

1. • interrogative verb enquiring about a whole situation

   Encyclopedic Info

   Morph.: The form ive is formally an instance of an interrogative verb ~ve, which always surfaces at the 3sg i-ve, whether Realis or Irrealis.

2. • what happens? what's up? how's things?

   Syntactic Restriction

   main predicate

   • • Example 969:
       

       Eo pon, ive?

       [lit. as for you, how's things?] What's up with you?

     • Example 970:
       

       Ive? Ba-romo kupa wako we tamwaliko?

       Now what? Do you like us or not?

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S59

     • Example 971:
       

       Aia kape i-ka ne! – Ka ive?

       Your father's coming! – So what?!

3. • what? Used when the speaker looks for his words to describe a whole event

   Syntactic Restriction

   in hesitation

   • • Example 972:
       

       A-ko ive?

       What did you say?

     • Example 973:
       

       Li-ka ponu, li-ko (ive?) li-wokobe da.

       So they all came in order to… (to do what again?) …to welcome them.

4. • (be) why?

   Syntactic Restriction

   foll. another verb

   • • Example 974:
       

       A-kai lusa ene na (pe) ive?

       But why did you tear my shirt?

5. • what's up with ‹s.o., s.th.›?

   Syntactic Restriction

   transitive use

   • • Example 975:
       

       Ive eo? Ai-etengi ñe nganae?

       What's up with you? Why are you crying?

Related entries

• Is Part of:
  • pe ive? why?
• Subentry:
  • ~ve¹ interrogative verb