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