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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 $Structural$.
}
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