Basque speakers wanted!

[David Gil]

I'm looking for native speakers of Basque to clarify a simple point.

A few days ago I posted a query titled "Knock! Knock! Who's there?",
asking how people answer the door in various languages.  I have already
received lots of interesting responses, including some for Basque.
Unfortunately, the Basque data that I have received are conflicting.  So
I would be grateful if some native speakers of Basque could provide me
with their answers to the query.  (Please answer me directly; I will
post a summary in a few days time.)

I have appended the query again, at the end of this message.

Thanks,

David


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The query:

Imagine you're at home, and somebody knocks on the door.  What do you
call out?

In English, two common responses are:

(1) Who's there?
(2) Who it is?

Similarly, in Indonesian, you can respond:

(3) Siapa disana?
    who there
(4)  Siapa itu?
    who that

BUT, and this is what I'm interested in, in Indonesian you can ALSO
respond simply with the bare interrogative:

(5) Siapa?
    who

My question (a simple yes/know question) is:

In Basque, is it possible to respond with the bare
interrogative form, as in Indonesian (5)?  (Ie. without any additional
locative, demonstrative or copula.)

Just a YES or a NO would be fine.

Although I'm very eager to find examples of languages for which the
answer is YES, I would also greatly appreciate a lot of NO answers,
which will enable me to find out how rare the construction is, and
hopefully what its typological correlates are.

(Note:  Presumably, all languages can do it with a complex construction,

with a locative and/or demonstrative and/or copula, as in (1) - (4).
This I'm not interested in.  All I'd like to know is whether Basque has
the simple construction as in (5).)

Thanks.


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David Gil

Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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