Interrogatives

Question 1

What are the two types of interrogatives?

Answer 1

Polar questions (yes/no)
Content questions (wh- who/what/when)

Question 2

How are polar questions structured?

Answer 2

Auxiliary fronting in English: (do) you like rice

Change in WO in French: verb movement SVO->VSO

Question 3

How are content questions structured?

Answer 3

Wh- fronting or

Wh in-situ

Question 4

What is wh fronting?

Answer 4

Question word at the beginning of a sentence#

WHO did it? WHAT did they do?

Question 5

What is wh in-situ?

Answer 5

Question word replacing the constituent in a declarative sentence

Question 6

Give examples of wh in-situ

Answer 6

Chinese: ta shi shei? ta shi Gatha
English: echo questions-you love who?

Question 7

How else might interrogatives be indicated?

Answer 7

with particles, special interrogative mood affixes on verbs, intonation

Question 8

Where do interrogative markers occur?

Answer 8

Either on whichever element is the focus of the question (Quechua)
OR in a particular syntactic position; after the first word or after the 1st constituent of the clause (Russian)

Question 9

How does French structure questions?

Answer 9

Using both wh- fronting and wh in-situ

Question 10

How is wh- fronting restricted in English? Is this the same in all languages?

Answer 10

English: only one wh- phrase can be fronted

Bulgarian allows multiple

Question 11

How is wh-fronting structured?

Answer 11

the wh- word moves to a position at the left edge of the clause, leaving a gap where the replaced constituent would be

Question 12

How is the wh- word selected?

Answer 12

Same properties (case  and semantic properties) as the pronominal form
person=who, place=where