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	int1: introduction to interrogatives
		An interrogative construction is a grammatical form used to ask a question.
		Information questions contain a specific interrogative word (who, what, when, why, how) and cannot be answered with a yes or no. Their purpose is to elicit a specific piece of information.
		In this kind of interrogative construction, the word order is the same as a declarative sentence, but the speaker's voice rises at the end to signal the question.
	www.laits.utexas.edu /tex/gr/int1.html (224 words)

	Interrogatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They are declined the same as nouns, in that there is an interrogative corresponding to each case.
		There is no singular/plural distinction among interrogatives, though there is an animacy distinction.
		Interrogatives beginning with /k/ are used for living beings and those beginning with /m/ are used for inanimate objects.
	homepage.mac.com /uldis/livonia/interrogatives.html (66 words)

	Some interactional uses of negative interrogatives in Danish.
		For instance, negative interrogatives such as ‘Isn’t it raining?’ can be used to ask whether it is true that it is not raining, but it can also indicate that the speaker guesses that it is indeed raining.
		Here it is proposed that the sequential position and the interactional function, or use, of a negative interrogative has consequences for how it is understood, and consequently for whether the negative interrogative is biased towards a ‘no’- or a ‘yes’-response as the agreeing answer.
		I further demonstrate that in language-in-use, negative interrogatives and their corresponding answers are not treated as ambiguous, and argue that this is because the function of the negative interrogative as well as its sequential position dissolves the ambiguity, leaving the answerer in no doubt as to what assumptions are encoded in the negative interrogative.
	webhost.ua.ac.be /tisp/viewpaper.php?id=65&print=1 (448 words)

	Interrogatives - Asking Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Most interrogative phrases begin with an interrogative word and require an inverted question mark "¿" and followed by a normal question mark "?".
		An interrogative phrase that is missing both question marks is incorrect.
		Interrogative expressions are commonly used in conjunction with prepositions to make them more specific.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~dabrowsk/span/grammar/0010g.htm (317 words)

	Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning and Use of English Interrogatives
		Interrogative constructions are the linguistic forms by which questions are expressed.
		Interrogative constructions have played a central role in the development of modern syntactic theory.
		Although there has by now been a significant amount of work on interrogatives across a variety of languages, there exist few syntactic and semantic treatments that provide a comprehensive account of a wide range of interrogative constructions and uses in a single language.
	cslipublications.stanford.edu /site/1575862786.html (412 words)

	UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture
		That is, the grammatical structure of a yes/no type interrogative makes a particular response form relevant next, and makes responses that depart from that form noticeable and eventful.
		To illustrate this I focus on the dense array of activities accomplished within type-conforming responses through variations in (i) the design of the turns they are embedded in, (ii) the tokens used to implement them (yes, yeah mhhmm, yep, etc.), and (iii) the prosodic contours through which those tokens are realized.
		By describing a grammaticalized normative structure I show how yes/no type interrogatives provide speaker and analyst alike detailed tools for parsing turns that allow each of us to realize the activities, harmonious and discordant, emotional and dispassionate, compliant and subversive, out of which the richness of daily life is built.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /clic/abstracts/abraym.htm (460 words)

	Research
		The findings are discussed with respect to the previous studies, including the generational gap between the current informants and earlier generations, and the implications for dialectal variation and a phonological characterization of the Dominican Spanish trill.
		Prieto (forthcoming) verifies that interrogatives are distinguished from declaratives by an earlier tonal prominence associated with a prenuclear pitch accent tone based on laboratory data from Peninsular Spanish.
		Rather, Willis argues that the Dominican Spanish data indicate that a target late in the utterance, the nuclear pitch accent, serves as the most reliable target for distinguishing tonal prominences and suggests that intonational disambiguation strategies may be dialect specific.
	web.nmsu.edu /~erikw (1645 words)

	Interrogatives in Esperanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Esperanto there are two kinds of interrogatives: yes-no interrogatives, and correlative interrogatives.
		In some cases, especially when the context makes it clear that the sentence is an interrogatives, a rising intonation alone can make a clause into a question, but this is rare and highly marked.
		Any interrogative clause as explained above can be used as-is as an indirect question, as the object of a verb like scii, to know.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interrogatives_in_Esperanto (348 words)

	Norwegian 111, Assignments
		Many questions in Norwegian start with interrogatives or question words.
		Below is a list of the most common interrogatives with examples.
		Some interrogatives consist of two words, "hvor" + an adjective or adverb.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/norwegian/web/interrogatives.html (80 words)

	LINGUIST List 6.598: Relativizer/Interrogative Question
		English uses "then" in the same way, and it may be that 'than' also originates from a demonstrative moving via a relative incarnation on to its present-day usage as a marker for the compared item in a comparative utterance.
		``what'' is used for interrogatives but not for relatives; ``which'' is used in relatives but not interrogatives (it is used as a specifier or with an elided partive in questions, but it cannot be a free-standing interrogative question pronoun).
		My knowledge of Latin and the Romance languages is pretty rusty, but I believe that even there, where the ``qu-'' or ``ch-'' series of pronouns is used in both relatives and interrogatives, it is not exactly the same paradigm of forms that appears in both constructions, but I would need to double check this.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/6/6-598.html (1923 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.126: Verbal Interrogatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Verbal interrogatives in fact seem to be embarrassingly frequent (particularly around the Pacific rim by some odd coincidence.) Here are the cases sent in: John Koontz: Typical Siouan languages have a verb 'to say what/something'.
		Norvin Richards: Ponapeian has interrogative verbs that mean things like "go where?"--Rehg discusses these in his grammar of Ponapeian.
		The interrogative forms in Quechua function as both interrogatives and indefinites (typically but not always with different discourse suffixes attached, but I'll ignore those here), e.g.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-126.html (445 words)

	Interrogatives-Words We Use to Ask Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As the title states, "interrogatives" are words that we use to ask questions.
		You have probably seen police movies when they say that they are going to take a suspect in to the station to "interrogate" him.
		"¿A quién viste?" We have to place the preposition "a" before the interrogative word "quién" to show that it is the direct object in the sentence.
	www.bloomington.in.us /~rlee/website/tutor/interrogatives.html (1826 words)

	dataWarehouse.com \| Brought to you by DM Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The six basic interrogatives and their corresponding business object categories define the context for aligning an enterprise's Mission Statement with its OA and subsequently with its SA.
		Though rarely are all six interrogatives expressed in a mission statement, they are expressed in the OA and the SA.
		If the use cases and requirements are based on the six basic interrogatives, and the classes, workflows and events that constitute the design of the component parts of the solution (i.e., the system architecture) are constructed to address those interrogatives, a clear path from the problem space to the solution space can be described.
	www.datawarehouse.com /article/?articleid=5140 (2582 words)

	Interrogatives
		The corresponding Greek interrogative has two genders, but these are grammatical, not biological genders, as we know.
		Case of the interrogative: In popular American English, the use of the interrogative has been reduced to two cases: Nominative (who?, what?, which?) and Genitive (often avoided too, whose?).
		The Greek interrogative pronoun or adjective that we have been using only in two forms, τίς (Masculine or Feminine), τί (neuter), was used in all cases except, normally, the Vocative.
	www.class.uh.edu /courses/grnl1/less9/ee9.1.htm (526 words)

	Graduate Program in Linguistics at CUNY
		An on-going debate in both child first language (L1) and adult second language (L2) acquisition is over whether a learner?s initial knowledge of grammar includes no syntactic information, partial information of lexical but not functional categories, or a full syntactic representation, including functional projections.
		There are two important components in the formation of interrogatives in English: (a) knowledge of the equivalence class of elements that invert with the subject, and (b) representation of a landing site for the inverted auxiliary.
		This talk provides a close examination of acquisition of interrogatives on the part of adult early L2 learners from two different first language backgrounds.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /linguistics/events/psycho/NatalieBat68.html (312 words)

	LINGUIST List 10.776: Person Marking, Derivation vs Memorization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The examples are all in masculine singular, but the same thing reportedly happens in feminine singular forms and in plural forms: you get -kako in 1st person feminine singular declaratives and 2nd person feminine singular interrogatives, and you get -kara in 1st person plural declaratives and 2nd person plural interrogatives.
		First person interrogatives are not common (except for those of us who go around asking ourselves where we left our reading glasses), but when they do occur they apparently do not take any specific person markers, just a question marker (which is also used on the much more common third person interrogatives).
		The use of the same person marker for 1st person declaratives and 2nd person interrogatives only happens in the nonrecent past (well, also in the habitual aspect, but that's the other story I mentioned, having to do with stative and dynamic stems).
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/10/10-776.html (729 words)

	Interrogatives
		Interrogatives are words which signal that a question is being asked.
		There are three main forms in French that allow you to do this: interrogative Determiners, interrogative Pronouns and interrogative Adverbs.
		Note that the interrogative may be separated from the noun it accompanies by the verb être:
	fis.ucalgary.ca /RF/GRInterrogatives.html (82 words)

	Rhetorical questions as redundant interrogatives
		Obviousness is measured using van Rooy's (2003) implementation of entropy for calculating the predictability of an answer set.
		Because they invoke an answer set, rhetorical questions resemble interrogatives, but the obviousness of a particular answer implies the bias of an assertion.
		As such, they are assertive, yet uninformative: instead of informing any discourse participant, rhetorical questions are redundant and serve to synchronize Speaker and Addressee beliefs.
	repositories.cdlib.org /ucsdling/sdlp2/7 (251 words)

	Other Words
		Interrogatives contain for the most part some (invisible) form of the copula or, better said, the copula is included in the formation of the interrogative.
		Interrogative particle and intentional copula comprise the copular clause.
		The interrogative is considered then the predicate of the copular clause.
	nualeargais.ie /gnag/sonstig.htm (5101 words)

	Interrogatives task (I) » French Learner Language Oral Corpora (FLLOC)
		Interrogatives task (I) In order to read the transcripts and tagged files, you need to download CHILDES from the CHILDES website, http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/
		This task is an information gap activity in which the subjects have to find out missing information from the researcher in order to reconstruct a drawing.
		The main purpose of this task is to elicit interrogative constructions and pronominal reference, as well as gender markings.
	www.flloc.soton.ac.uk /LDCInterrogatives.html (88 words)

	Interrogative Sentence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An interrogative sentence is a sentence that asks a direct question.
		It is punctuated with a question mark at the end.
		In English an interrogative sentence normally changes the word order so that the verb or part of the verb comes before the subject.
	www.englishplus.com /grammar/00000343.htm (44 words)

	Interrogatives: Questions, Facts and Dialogue - Ginzburg (ResearchIndex)
		If your firewall is blocking outgoing connections to port 3125, you can use these links to download local copies.
		Abstract: This paper focuses on the semantics of interrogative sentences and has three main parts (Update)
		Ginzburg, J. (1996), "Interrogatives: Questions, Facts, and Dialogue" in S. Lappin (ed.) The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell, Oxford, pp.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /680257.html (207 words)

	INTERROGATIVES -BUSINESS SPANISH TUTORIALS -
		Verb + pronoun...Unlike English, the auxiliaries do and does are not used.
		That interrogative questions have an opening (¿) question mark and also a closing one (?).
		NOTE: These words are ALWAYS graphically accentuated, whether they are used to formulate a direct or indirect question.
	www.businessspanish.com /LECCION/Interrogative.htm (83 words)

	Universal Issues
		This is fishy to me. This makes me wonder if it is not the interrogatives that caused the expansion of knowledge and if this expansion is not bogus to a greater degree than we suspect.
		What is a "question?" This is weird because one is forced to use the very entity being examined to examine the question of what a question is. This is an indication that there is something lacking in Homo Sapiens's logic or his communication systems or both or something else.
		It answers the reason for everything and in fact - is the very reason the interrogatives exist in the first place.
	www.mecfilms.com /universe/articles/question.htm (1428 words)

	Sp. Gr. (Interrogatives)
		There is a fairly good correspondence between the basic Spanish and English interrogatives, given by the canonical translations:
		For interrogative sentences, English brings only the verb auxiliary before the Subject whereas Spanish antecedes both:
		In the first case the question requires the use of hacer (to do); in the second case the use of reflexive pasar (to happen).
	www.columbia.edu /~js2348/gintxa.html (1296 words)

	Intro2Spanish.com: Interrogatives
		Do this exercise with each of the following interrogatives, just to get into the habit of asking them out loud!
		Click on the fl button to hear the interrogative.
		Notice that questions in Spanish begin with an inverted question mark.
	www.rcaguilar.com /spanish/vocabulary/00-lists/interrogatives.htm (218 words)

	Quia - Spanish interrogatives
		Select the interrogative which best fits the underlined word or phrase.
		(You should be able to substitute the interrogative for the underlined part of the answer and generally have the words needed to form the question.
		To learn how to make your own, just like this, click here.
	www.quia.com /pop/43342.html (57 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.119: Verbal Interrogatives, North & South Vietnamese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question.
		This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.
		Obviously, interrogatives can occur as nouns (what), adjectives (which), adverbs (how), and even perhaps numerals (ikutu/nan- in Japanese).
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-119.html (226 words)

	INTERROGATIVES - KISWAHILI GRAMMAR NOTES
		The pronominal prefix with the -A of reference makes this phrase agree with the noun it modifies:
		It is used both as an interrogative "why?" and a conjunction "because":
		She has come because she has been called.
	research.yale.edu /swahili/serve_pages/grammar/interrogatives.php (223 words)

	interrogatives - Seslisozluk.com Forums Turkish English German Language Resources Dictionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		interrogatives - Seslisozluk.com Forums Turkish English German Language Resources Dictionaries
		Seslisozluk.com Forums Turkish English German Language Resources Dictionaries > English language help, discussion and fun > General grammar questions (EFL / ESL)
		I am just triying to tell Some conversation might be about your job
	forum.seslisozluk.com /showthread.php?t=6196 (473 words)

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