The paper discusses the so-called adverbial use of the wh-pronoun was (‘what’), which establishes a non-standard interrogative construction type in German. It argues that the adverbial use of was (‘what’) is based on the lexical properties of a categorically deficient pronoun was (‘what’), which bears a causal meaning. In addition, adverbial was (‘what’) differs from canonical argument was (‘wh...

There are wh-sentences which express speech acts of interrogative or declarative with the same syntactic structure in standard Chinese, such as, "bǎobao chīdiănr shénme?"(What does the baby intend to eat?) and "bǎobao chīdiănr shénme."(The baby intends something to eat.) The interrogative pronoun "shénme" (what)has different semantic functions, such as specific reference in the interrogative se...

The difficulty of defining and capitalizing the knowledge in an organization from the business data captured in text files. These text files defined as unstructured document that is without a specific format example, plain text. Hence, this paper presents an Interrogative Knowledge Identification framework to identify unstructured documents that encompassed knowledge, information, and data. It ...

IntroductIon The problem of changes in software development is a complex one, and it is almost impossible to avoid it. Indeed, the continuous evolution of the real world causes frequent changes in functional requirements, which entail frequent modifications to the software, yielding a gradual decay of its overall quality. To tackle this problem, two meth-odologies have been proposed: waterfall ...

The article considers the modal-semantic shades expressed by interrogative statements in Kazakh language, which are used to obtain not only certain information, but also express approval (consent), clarification, advice, indication, suggestion, comparison, attention (to cause a reaction), conclusion, justification, warning, permission, prohibition, refusal, objection, protest, coercion (concess...

Our study tackles Russian interrogative-relative pronouns ( wh -words) as a lexicographic type which requires unified treatment. objective is to give systematic description and explanation of the numerous collocational constructional properties -words using corpus methods. The dataset statistics were extracted from National Corpus, at least 100 examples for each analysed. Methodologically based...

Our paper addresses the following question: is there a general characterization, for all predicates P that take both declarative and interrogative complements (responsive predicates in Lahiri’s 2002 typology), of the meaning of the P-interrogative clause construction in terms of the meaning of the P-declarative clause construction? On our account, if P is a reponsive predicate and Q a question ...

This paper presents the results of a perception experiment designed to investigate the contribution of a pre-focal hesitation pause, delayed focal peak and a raised F0 range for signaling interrogative mode in Swedish. The results are consistent with a previous study which demonstrated that a delayed peak combined with a raised F0 range can effectively signal interrogative mode in Swedish echo ...