I posted this some time ago, but had no reply. Apologies if the parenthetic remark caused offence! It's a serious question, to which I can't find the answer in any grammar book. - - - - - - - Forwarded Message Follows - - - - - - - Sut dywedir yn Gymraeg: Why is John Major the Prime Minister of Britain? (A good question, perhaps, in any language.) More generally, I'm asking how you prepose a wh- adverb to a copular construction whose complement is definite. I.e. 'the X is the Y' = 'yr Y yw'r X' Now, how do you say 'how/why/when/where is the X the Y'? ************************ Nigel Love Linguistics Cape Town NLOVE@BEATTIE.UCT.AC.ZA ************************