On Translation of Interrogative Sentences from Hindi to English

Interrogation is marked by several devices in a natural language. Some of these devices are linguistically welldefined. However, many of them are not so well-defined and hence their dealing depends on several factors including some extra-grammatical factors. Furthermore, different languages adopt different strategies to mark different types of interrogation and there is no one-to-one map between strategies adopted in one language and those in another language. For instance, English uses different wh-words to denote content-type interrogative sentences whereas yes/no-type interrogation is denoted by auxiliaryfronting. In Hindi, on the other hand, an interrogative marker particle kyaa can be used to denote both contenttype and yes/no-type interrogation besides several other roles. Likewise, some other markers of interrogation in Hindi are also used in multiple senses and have multiple mapping patterns in English. In this paper, we discuss different types of interrogative sentences in Hindi and formulate strategy for the purpose of their translation into English.