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{{Short description|Words that indicate a question is being asked, as a grammatical category}}{{Multiple issues|section=|{{Globalize|article|Anglophone|2name=the English-speaking world|date=May 2017}}{{More citations needed|date=May 2020}}}}An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws). They may be used in both direct questions (Where is he going?) and in indirect questions (I wonder where he is going). In English and various other languages the same forms are also used as relative pronouns in certain relative clauses (The country where he was born) and certain adverb clauses (I go where he goes). It can also be used as a modal, since question words are more likely to appear in modal sentences, like (Why was he walking?)A particular type of interrogative word is the interrogative particle, which serves to convert a statement into a yesâno question, without having any other meaning. Examples include est-ce que in French, ли li in Russian, czy in Polish, Ñи chy in Ukrainian, Äu in Esperanto, ÄyÄ Ø¢Ûا in Persian, à¦à¦¿ ki in Bengali, / ma in Mandarin Chinese, '/'//Finnish and Turkish have vowel harmony, see more here in Turkish, pa in Ladin, ka in Japanese, kka in Korean, ko/kö in Finnish, (да) ли (da) li in Serbo-Croatian and and in Basque. "Is it true that..." and "... right?" would be a similar construct in English. Such particles contrast with other interrogative words, which form what are called wh''-questions rather than yesâno questions.For more information about the grammatical rules for using formed questions in various languages, see Interrogative.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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In English
Interrogative words in English can serve as interrogative determiners, interrogative pronouns, or interrogative adverbs. Certain pronominal adverbs may also be used as interrogative words, such as whereby or wherefore.Interrogative determiner
The interrogative words which, what, and whose are interrogative determiners when used to prompt the specification of a presented noun or noun phrase such as in the question Which farm is the largest? where the interrogative determiner which prompts specification of the noun farm. In the question Whose gorgeous, pink painting is that?, whose is the interrogative, personal, possessive determiner prompting a specification for the possessor of the noun phrase gorgeous pink painting.Interrogative pronoun
The interrogative words who, whom, whose, what, and which are interrogative pronouns when used in the place of a noun or noun phrase. In the question Who is the leader?, the interrogative word who is a interrogative pronoun because it stands in the place of the noun or noun phrase the question prompts (e.g. the king or the woman with the crown). Similarly, in the question Which leads to the city center? the interrogative word which is an interrogative pronoun because it stands in the place of a noun or noun phrase (e.g. the road to the north or the river to your east). Note, which is an interrogative pronoun, not an interrogative determiner, because there is no noun or noun phrase present to serve as a determiner for. Consequently, in the question Which leads to the city center? the word which is an interrogative pronoun; when in the question Which road leads to the city center? the word which is an interrogative determiner for the noun road.Interrogative adverb
The interrogative words where, when, how, why, whether, whatsoever, and the more archaic whither and whence are interrogative adverbs when they modify a verb. In the question How did you announce the deal? the interrogative word how is an interrogative adverb because it modifies the verb did (past tense of to do). In the question Why should I read that book? the interrogative word why is an interrogative adverb because it describes the verb should.Note, in direct questions, interrogative adverbs always describe auxiliary verbs such as did, do, should, will, must, or might.Yesâno questions
Yesâno questions can begin with an interrogative particle, such as:- A conjugation of (wikt:beConjugation|be) (e.g. "Are you hungry?")
- A conjugation of (wikt:doConjugation|do) (e.g. "Do you want fries?") - see {{section link|Do-support|In questions}}
- A conjugation of another (wikt:Category:English auxiliary verbs|auxiliary verb), including contractions (e.g. "Can't you move any faster?")
Forms with -ever
Most English interrogative words can take the suffix -ever, to form words such as whatever and wherever. (Older forms of the suffix are -so and -soever, as in whoso and whomsoever.) These words have the following main meanings:- As more emphatic interrogative words, often expressing disbelief or puzzlement in mainly rhetorical questions: Whoever could have done such a thing? Wherever has he gone?
- To form free relative clauses, as in I'll do whatever you do, Whoever challenges us shall be punished, Go to wherever they go. In this use, the nominal -ever words (who(m)ever, whatever, whichever) can be regarded as indefinite pronouns or as relative pronouns.
- To form adverbial clauses with the meaning "no matter where/who/etc.": Wherever they hide, I will find them.
Other languages
A frequent class of interrogative words in several other languages is the interrogative verb: {{fs interlinear|indent=3|ë ì¨ê° ì´ë»ìµëê¹?|Nalssi-ga eotteo-sseumni-kka?POL5|politeness fifth level}}-INTERR|"How's the weather?"}}
{{interlinear|indent=3|Chi yaa-vch jaahan huuhed bish gej bi bod-jii-ne|You do.what-CONC small child not that I think-PROG-NPAST|"Whatever you do, I think you're not a small child." (Example taken from an Internet forum)}}Australian Aboriginal languagesInterrogative pronouns in Australian Aboriginal languages are a diverse set of lexical items with functions extending far beyond simply the formation of questions (though this is one of their uses). These pronominal stems are sometimes called ignoratives or epistememes because their broader function is to convey differing degrees of perceptual or epistemic certainty. Often, a singular ignorative stem may serve a variety of interrogative functions that would be expressed by different lexical items in, say, English through contextual variation and interaction with other morphology such as case-marking. In Jingulu, for example, the single stem nyamba may come to mean 'what,' 'where,' 'why,' or 'how' through combination with locative, dative, ablative, and instrumental case suffixes:{{Interlinear|indent=3|nyamba nyamarni manjku|IGNOR 2SG.ERG skin.name|What skin are you?}}{{Interlinear|indent=3|nyamba-mbili-kaji mankiyi-mindi-ju|IGNOR-LOC-through sit-1DU.INCL-do|Where are we sitting?}}{{Interlinear|indent=3|Nyamba-rna arrkuja-nga-nku-ju|IGNOR-DAT scratch-1SG-REFL-do|Why are you scratching?}}{{Interlinear|indent=3|Nyamba-arndi-kaji nya-rriyi-rni|IGNOR-INST-through 2SG-go.FUT-FOC|How will you go?}}(Adapted from PensalfiniPensalfini, Rob. 2003. A Grammar of Jinguluâ¯: an Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory. Canberra ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.)Other closely related languages, however, have less interrelated ways of forming wh-questions with separate lexemes for each of these wh-pronouns. This includes Wardaman, which has a collection of entirely unrelated interrogative stems: yinggiya 'who,' ngamanda 'what,' guda 'where,' nyangurlang 'when,' gun.garr-ma 'how many/what kind.'BOOK, Merlan, Francesca., A grammar of Wardaman : a language of the Northern Territory of Australia, 1994, Mouton de Gruyter, 3-11-012942-6, Berlin, 28926390, Mushin (1995)JOURNAL, Mushin, Liana, June 1995, Epistememes in Australian languagesâ, Australian Journal of Linguistics, en, 15, 1, 1â31, 10.1080/07268609508599514, 0726-8602, and Verstraete (2018){{Citation|last=Verstraete|first=Jean-Christophe|title='Perhaps' in Cape York Peninsula|date=2018-09-10|work=Aspects of Linguistic Variation|pages=247â268|editor-last=Olmen|editor-first=Daniël|place=Berlin, Boston|publisher=De Gruyter|doi=10.1515/9783110607963-010|isbn=978-3-11-060796-3|editor2-last=Mortelmans|editor2-first=Tanja|editor3-last=Brisard|editor3-first=Frank|doi-access=free|hdl=1885/170669|hdl-access=free}} provide detailed overviews of the broader functions of ignoratives in an array of languages. The latter focuses on the lexeme ngaani in many Paman Languages which can have a Wh-like interrogative function but can also have a sense of epistemic indefiniteness or uncertainty like 'some' or 'perhaps;' see the following examples from Umpithamu:Wh-question{{Interlinear|indent=3|Ngaani-ku mi'athi-ngka{{=}}uurra-athungku|IGNOR-DAT cry-PRS{{=}}2PL.NOM-1SG.ACC|Why are you all crying for me?}}Adnominal / Determiner{{Interlinear|indent=3|yukurun ngaani yitha-n{{=}}antyampa kuura|gear IGNOR leave-PST{{=}}1PL.EXCL.NOM behind|We left some gear behind}}Adverbial{{Interlinear|indent=3|Yupa miintha iluwa ngaani ngama-l|today good 3SG.NOM IGNOR see-IMPERF|Perhaps she is better today.}}(Verstraete 2018)See alsoReferences{{Reflist}}{{lexical categories|state=collapsed}} |
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