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Central semantic of value interrogative pronoun

Syntactic criterion

  1. An interrogative pronoun realizes the position of a verb argument or of a subordinate sentence in the clause in which it occurs. It enables an expansion E which contains an instanciation of X as answer to P where X occurs. If it introduces an indirect question, the indirect question realizes the position of a syntactic construction which depends from certain verbs like demander.

Test

Given X a pronoun, P the clause in which X occurs, If X enables an expansion E and if E contains an instanciation of X in P, X is an interrogative pronoun.

Test

Given X a pronoun, P the main clause, P' the clause introduced by X, if X realizes a verb argument of P' or a subordinate clause, and if P' is a syntactic construction of a certain verb occuring in P, like 'demander', X is an interrogative pronoun (which introduces an embedded interrogative sentence).

Interrogative pronouns can introduce direct or indirect interrogative sentences:

pos=p & type=int pos=p & type=int
Description Example Description Example
direct interrogative sentencePourquoi /pos=p & type=int   tout ça?indirect interrogative sentenceJe me demande pourquoi /pos=p & type=int   tout ça devait arriver
Comment /pos=p & type=int   t'appelles-tu?Je me demande/ je sais comment /pos=p & type=int   tu t'appelles
Quand /pos=p & type=int   partons-nous?Je veux savoir quand /pos=p & type=int   nous partons
/pos=p & type=int   habite-t-il?Je veux savoir /pos=p & type=int   il habite
Combien /pos=p & type=int   est-ce que cela coûte?Je veux savoir combien /pos=p & type=int   cela coûte
Quel /pos=p & type=int   est son nom?Je veux savoir quel /pos=p & type=int   est son nom
Qui /pos=p & type=int   vient ce soir?Je me demande qui /pos=p & type=int   vient ce soir
Que /pos=p & type=int   fais-tu ce soir?Je me demande ce que /pos=p & type=int   tu fais ce soir

Interrogative pronouns can introduce infinitive sentences:

type=int
D e s c r i p t i o nE x a m p l e s
interrogative pronoun + VinfPourquoi /type=int   payer plus?
/type=int   aller?
Que /type=int   faire?
Qui /type=int   appeler?
Comment /type=int   vivre?
Quand /type=int   partir?



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