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937:"Negative questions" are interrogative sentences which contain negation in their phrasing, such as "Shouldn't you be working?" These can have different ways of expressing affirmation and denial from the standard form of question, and they can be confusing, since it is sometimes unclear whether the answer should be the opposite of the answer to the non-negated question. For example, if one does not have a passport, both "Do you have a passport?" and "Don't you have a passport?" are properly answered with "No", despite apparently asking opposite questions. The Japanese and Korean languages avoid this ambiguity. Answering "No" to the second of these in Japanese or Korean would mean, "I 45: 212: 1008:
in sentences such as "I wonder where my keys are" and "Ask him where my keys are." Indirect questions do not necessarily follow the same rules of grammar as direct questions. For example, in English and some other languages, indirect questions are formed without inversion of subject and verb (compare
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A similar ambiguous question in English is "Do you mind if...?" The responder may reply unambiguously "Yes, I do mind," if they do mind, or "No, I don't mind," if they do not, but a simple "No" or "Yes" answer can lead to confusion, as a single "No" can seem like a "Yes, I do mind" (as in "No, please
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The main semantic classification of questions is according to the set of logically possible answers that they admit. An open question, such as "What is your name?", allows indefinitely many possible answers. A closed question admits a finite number of possible answers. Closed questions may be further
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wrote: "Though she understood the question, she did not herself ask any questions — unlike the child who asks interminable questions, such as What that? Who making noise? When Daddy come home? Me go Granny's house? Where puppy? Sarah never delayed the departure of her trainer after her lessons by
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A direct answer to a given question is a piece of language that completely, but just completely, answers the question...What is crucial is that it be effectively decidable whether a piece of language is a direct answer to a specific question... To each clear question there corresponds a set of
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Some authors conflate these definitions. While prototypical questions (such as "What is your name?") will satisfy all three definitions, their overlap is not complete. For example "I would like to know your name." satisfies the pragmatic definition, but not the semantic or syntactic ones. Such
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i. (a) Yes. (b) She's ready. (c) No, she's not. ii. (a) I don't know. (b) Why do you ask? (c) She might be. iii.(a) She's still looking for her wallet. (b) She wasn't expecting you before 5 o'clock. (c) I'll let you know when she's ready.
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A direction question is one that seeks an instruction rather than factual information. It differs from a typical ("information") question in that the characteristic response is a directive rather than a declarative statement. For example:
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don't do that"), and a "Yes" can seem like a "No, I don't mind" (as in "Yes, go ahead"). An easy way to bypass this confusion would be to ask a non-negative question, such as "Is it all right with you if...?"
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at the end of a sentence identifies questions in writing. As with intonation, this feature is not restricted to sentences having the grammatical form of questions – it may also indicate a sentence's
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of questioning student responses may be used by a teacher to lead the student towards the truth without direct instruction, and also helps students to form logical conclusions.
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may be colloquially applied to a number of uses of questions where the speaker does not seek or expect an answer (perhaps because the answer is implied or obvious), such as:
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In English, alternative questions are not syntactically distinguished from yes–no questions. Depending on context, the same question may have either interpretation:
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and a few others who underwent extensive language training programs (with the use of gestures and other visual forms of communications) successfully learned to
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Question (C) indicates speaker's commitment to the truth of the statement that somebody killed the cat, but no commitment as to whether John did it or did not.
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asking where the trainer was going, when she was returning, or anything else". The ability to ask questions is often assessed in relation to comprehension of
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The principal use of questions is to elicit information from the person being addressed by indicating the information which the speaker (or writer) desires.
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is a sentence which is syntactically declarative but is understood as a question by the use of a rising intonation. For example, "You're not using this?"
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Smith, Joseph Wayne. Essays on ultimate questions: critical discussions of the limits of contemporary philosophical inquiry, Aldershot: Avebury, 1988.
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Most languages have an intonational pattern which is characteristic of questions (often involving a raised pitch at the end, as in English).
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Different languages may use different mechanisms to distinguish polar ("yes-no") questions from declarative statements (in addition to the
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quite complex questions and requests (including question words "who", "what", "where"), although so far they have failed to learn how to
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Stahl, George. "Un dĂ©veloppement de la logique des questions", in: Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger 88 (1963), 293–301.
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In many languages, including English and most other European languages, the interrogative phrase must (with certain exceptions such as
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is a polar question formed by the addition of an interrogative fragment (the "tag") to a (typically declarative) clause. For example:
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On the other hand, there are English dialects (Southern Californian English, New Zealand English) in which rising declaratives (the "
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subdivided into yes–no questions (such as "Are you hungry?") and alternative questions (such as "Do you want jam or marmalade?").
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The canonical expected answer to such a question would be either "England", "Ireland", or "Wales". Such an alternative question
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the word order in "where are they?" and "(I wonder) where they are"). Indirect questions may also be subject to the changes of
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is a type of clause which is characteristically associated with questions, and defined by certain grammatical rules (such as
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clauses. Open and closed questions are generally distinguished grammatically, with the former identified by the use of
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presents two or more discrete choices as possible answers in an assumption that only one of them is true. For example:
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A widespread and accepted use of questions in an educational context is the assessment of students' knowledge through
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Questions may be phrased as a request for confirmation for a statement the interrogator already believes to be true.
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such as "Is this a polar question, or an alternative question?" present a list of possibilities to choose from.
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Fieser, James; Lillegard, Norman (eds.). Philosophical questions: readings and interactive guides, 2005.
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William Chisholm, Louis T. Milic, John A.C. Greppin. Interrogativity. – John Benjamins Publishing, 1982.
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are distinct clause types characteristically associated with open and closed questions, respectively.
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Loos, Eugene E.; Anderson, Susan; Day, Dwight H. Jr.; Jordan, Paul C.; Wingate, J. Douglas (eds.).
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Only the responses are answers in the Cambridge sense. The responses in avoid committing to a
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The distinction between these classes tends to be grammaticalized. In English, open and closed
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Questions may also be used as the basis for a number of indirect speech acts. For example, the
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responsive. ... A direct answer must provide an unarguably final resolution of the question.
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Unlike (B), questions (C) and (D) incorporate a presupposition that somebody killed the cat.
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and various other (mostly European) languages, both forms of interrogative are subject to an
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Questions are used from the most elementary stage of learning to original research. In the
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In English, these are typically embodied in a closed interrogative clause, which uses an
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Cross-linguistically, the most common method of marking a polar question is with an
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Which has the form of an interrogative, but the illocutionary force of a directive.
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Muratta Bunsen, Eduardo. "Lo erotico en la pregunta", in: Aletheia 5 (1999), 65–74.
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category of speech act which seeks to obtain information from the addressee.
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such as "What kind of question is this?" allow many possible resolutions.
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that the addressee supports one of these three teams. The addressee may
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Along similar lines, Belnap and Steel (1976) define the concept of a
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Proceedings of the Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT)
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of word order between verb and subject. In English, the inversion
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They're closed? But the website said it was open until 10 o'clock.
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type characteristically used to form questions, they are called
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Questions may be marked by some combination of word order,
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this presupposition with an answer like "None of them".
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Questions come in a number of varieties. For instance;
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In speech, these are distinguishable by intonation.
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questions, as they are not expected to be answered.
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Request for confirmation and speaker presupposition
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Index

Questions
Question (disambiguation)
Asking (song)
A question mark made of smaller question marks
utterance
information
interrogatives
grammatical
Rhetorical questions
bona fide
Polar questions
English
"yes" or "no"
Open questions
linguistics
philosophy of language
pragmatics
illocutionary acts
discourse
formal semantics
alternative semantics
inquisitive semantics
denotations
sets
propositions
semantics
pragmatics
illocutionary
syntax
interrogative

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