interrogativize

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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