Meaning of interrogativize | Babel Free

Definitions

To make interrogative.

Examples

“All languages have devices to negativize and interrogativize and to turn some sentences into commands and propositions: I am not going, are you? Come on!”

“In Literary Japanese and in some of the dialects (e.g. Shodon in the northern Ryūkyūs) there is a sentence particle yá (§15.6a) that has some of the interrogativizing functions handled by ká in standard Japanese, both interrogative particles are present in the kinds of Japanese just mentioned, and yá is preserved in a number of clichés used in modern Japanese, e.g. íma ya ‘now indeed’.”

“-shą’; -sh, an interrogative particle attached to nouns, pronouns, participialized or nominalized verbs, and to other particles. It does not serve, like -ísh, to merely interrogativize an otherwise declarative sentence, and is never used with, or as an equivalent of, the proclitic da’ (V. -ísh; da’). -shą’ is used with the interrogative pronouns to ask who, where, whence, whither, how, why, how about, what about, etc.”

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