Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

(101) Çocuk-lar ev-de değil-se süt-Ü kim iç-ti?
child-PL home-LOC not-COND.COP milk-ACC who drink-PF
‘If the children aren’t at home, then who drank the MILK?’
(102) DuvarlaRI ne zaman boyayacaklar?
‘When will they paint the WALLS?’
19.2.4 MULTIPLE WH-PHRASES
In the event of two wh-phrases occurring in the same sentence, they appear in the order in
which their corresponding responses would appear in an unmarked sentence (23.1). In
such cases, the first question word has stress, and the sentence can have either the same
intonation pattern as whquestions (i.e. rising intonation at the end), or it may have falling
intonation at the end:
(103) KİM kime neyi verdi?
‘WHO gave what to whom?’
19.3 ECHO QUESTIONS
An echo question follows a question which has just been uttered, either because the initial
question is unexpected and has come as a surprise, or because part of the initial question
has not been heard or understood properly. Echo questions may also be used for inquiring
about the validity of a question which has already been asked. Depending on the form of
the initial question, they may contain a wh-phrase and the interrogative particle mI. The
interrogative particle immediately follows a stressed wh-phrase, and the intonation is that
of wh-questions, a slight rise followed by a fall-rise:
(104) NEreye mi gidiyorum?
Questions 267
(i) ‘Are you asking me where I’m going?’
(ii) ‘Where am I GOING?’
If the wh-phrase is the subject complement, it occurs at the end and is not stressed. In
these questions, stress falls on the phrase that mI is attached to.
(105) HülYA mı kim?
‘Are you asking who Hülya is?/Who is HÜLYA?’
Echo questions following a statement have the same structure as ordinary wh-questions
but are higher in pitch and do not contain a fall in intonation: