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--1 Question: Questions and Interrogative Pronouns
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abstract Question = Cat ** {
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-- A question can be formed from a clause ('yes-no question') or
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-- with an interrogative.
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fun
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QuestCl : Cl -> QCl ; -- does John walk
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QuestVP : IP -> VP -> QCl ; -- who walks
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QuestSlash : IP -> ClSlash -> QCl ; -- whom does John love
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QuestIAdv : IAdv -> Cl -> QCl ; -- why does John walk
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QuestIComp : IComp -> NP -> QCl ; -- where is John
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-- Interrogative pronouns can be formed with interrogative
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-- determiners, with or without a noun.
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IdetCN : IDet -> CN -> IP ; -- which five songs
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IdetIP : IDet -> IP ; -- which five
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-- They can be modified with adverbs.
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AdvIP : IP -> Adv -> IP ; -- who in Paris
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-- Interrogative quantifiers have number forms and can take number modifiers.
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IdetQuant : IQuant -> Num -> IDet ; -- which (five)
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-- Interrogative adverbs can be formed prepositionally.
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PrepIP : Prep -> IP -> IAdv ; -- with whom
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-- They can be modified with other adverbs.
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AdvIAdv : IAdv -> Adv -> IAdv ; -- where in Paris
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-- Interrogative complements to copulas can be both adverbs and
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-- pronouns.
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CompIAdv : IAdv -> IComp ; -- where (is it)
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CompIP : IP -> IComp ; -- who (is it)
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-- More $IP$, $IDet$, and $IAdv$ are defined in $Structural$.
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-- Wh questions with two or more question words require a new, special category.
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cat
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QVP ; -- buy what where
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fun
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ComplSlashIP : VPSlash -> IP -> QVP ; -- buys what
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AdvQVP : VP -> IAdv -> QVP ; -- lives where
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AddAdvQVP : QVP -> IAdv -> QVP ; -- buys what where
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QuestQVP : IP -> QVP -> QCl ; -- who buys what where
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}
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