Table of Contents
93 relations: Alternative semantics, Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec, Cambridge University Press, Clause, Complex question, Confusion, Content clause, Curiosity, Cyrillic script, Danish language, David Premack, Defeasibility (linguistics), Denotation, Dependent clause, Discourse, Display and referential questions, Do-support, Echo question, English grammar, English language, Erotetics, Exam, Exclamation mark, Formal semantics (natural language), French grammar, French language, German grammar, German language, Grammar, Grammatical tense, High rising terminal, Illocutionary act, Imperative mood, Implicature, Indirect speech, Information, Inquiry, Inquiry education, Inquisitive semantics, Interrobang, Interrogation, Interrogative, Interrogative word, Intonation (linguistics), Inversion (linguistics), Inverted question and exclamation marks, Italian grammar, Japanese language, Joseph Jordania, Kanzi, ... Expand index (43 more) »
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Alternative semantics
Alternative semantics (or Hamblin semantics) is a framework in formal semantics and logic.
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Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec
Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Clause
In language, a clause is a constituent or phrase that comprises a semantic predicand (expressed or not) and a semantic predicate.
Complex question
A complex question, trick question, multiple question, fallacy of presupposition, or plurium interrogationum (Latin, 'of many questions') is a question that has a complex presupposition.
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Confusion
In medicine, confusion is the quality or state of being bewildered or unclear.
Content clause
In grammar, a content clause is a dependent clause that provides content implied or commented upon by an independent clause. Question and content clause are grammar.
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Curiosity
Curiosity (from Latin cūriōsitās, from cūriōsus "careful, diligent, curious", akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
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David Premack
David Premack (October 26, 1925 – June 11, 2015) was an American psychologist who was a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Defeasibility (linguistics)
In the linguistic field of pragmatics, an inference is said to be defeasible or cancellable if it can be made to disappear by the addition of another statement, or an appropriate context.
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Denotation
In linguistics and philosophy, the denotation of a word or expression is its strictly literal meaning.
Dependent clause
A dependent clause, also known as a subordinate clause, subclause or embedded clause, is a certain type of clause that juxtaposes an independent clause within a complex sentence.
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Discourse
Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication.
Display and referential questions
A display question (also called known-information question) is a type of question requiring the other party to demonstrate their knowledge on a subject matter when the questioner already knows the answer.
See Question and Display and referential questions
Do-support
Do-support (sometimes referred to as do-insertion or periphrastic do), in English grammar, is the use of the auxiliary verb do (or one of its inflected forms e.g. does), to form negated clauses and constructions which require subject–auxiliary inversion, such as questions.
Echo question
An echo question is a question that seeks to confirm or clarify another speaker's utterance (the stimulus), by repeating it back in some form. Question and echo question are grammar.
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English grammar
English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Erotetics
Erotetics or erotetic logic is a part of logic, devoted to logical analysis of questions.
Exam
An examination (exam or evaluation) or test is an educational assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs).
Exclamation mark
The exclamation mark (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis.
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Formal semantics (natural language)
Formal semantics is the study of grammatical meaning in natural languages using formal tools from logic, mathematics and theoretical computer science. Question and formal semantics (natural language) are grammar.
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French grammar
French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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German grammar
The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Grammar
In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.
Grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.
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High rising terminal
The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentences can end with a rising pitch similar to that typically found in yes-or-no questions.
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Illocutionary act
The concept of illocutionary acts was introduced into linguistics by the philosopher J. L. Austin in his investigation of the various aspects of speech acts.
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Imperative mood
The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.
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Implicature
In pragmatics, a subdiscipline of linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed.
Indirect speech
In linguistics, speech or indirect discourse is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it.
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Information
Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform.
Inquiry
An inquiry (also spelled as enquiry in British English) is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem.
Inquiry education
Inquiry education (sometimes known as the inquiry method) is a student-centered method of education focused on asking questions.
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Inquisitive semantics
Inquisitive semantics is a framework in logic and natural language semantics.
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Interrobang
The interrobang, also known as the interabang (often represented by any of the following: ?!, !?, ?!?,?!!, !?? or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known as the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark (also known in the jargon of printers and programmers as a "bang").
Interrogation
Interrogation (also called questioning) is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, intelligence agencies, organized crime syndicates, and terrorist organizations with the goal of eliciting useful information, particularly information related to suspected crime.
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Interrogative
An interrogative clause is a clause whose form is typically associated with question-like meanings. Question and interrogative are interrogative words and phrases.
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Interrogative word
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. Question and interrogative word are interrogative words and phrases.
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Intonation (linguistics)
In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse.
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Inversion (linguistics)
In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their typical or expected order of appearance, that is, they invert.
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Inverted question and exclamation marks
The inverted question mark,, and inverted exclamation mark,, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages which have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray languages. Question and inverted question and exclamation marks are interrogative words and phrases.
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Italian grammar
Italian grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the Italian language.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Joseph Jordania
Joseph Jordania (Georgian იოსებ ჟორდანია, born February 12, 1954, and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor.
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Kanzi
Kanzi (born October 28, 1980), also known by the lexigram (from the character 太), is a male bonobo who has been the subject of several studies on great ape language.
Language development
Language development in humans is a process which starts early in life.
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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
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Leading question
A leading question is a question that suggests a particular answer and contains information the examiner is looking to have confirmed.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
Loaded question
A loaded question is a form of complex question that contains a controversial assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).
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Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. Question and morphology (linguistics) are grammar.
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Nuel Belnap
Nuel Dinsmore Belnap Jr. (May 1, 1930 – June 12, 2024) was an American logician and philosopher who has made contributions to the philosophy of logic, temporal logic, and structural proof theory.
Open-ended question
An open-ended question is a question that cannot be answered with a "yes" or "no" response, or with a static response. Question and open-ended question are grammar.
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Philosophy of language
In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world.
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Polish grammar
The grammar of the Polish language is complex and characterized by a high degree of inflection, and has relatively free word order, although the dominant arrangement is subject–verb–object (SVO).
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Pragmatics
In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning.
Presupposition
In the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics, a presupposition (or PSP) is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse.
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Proposition
A proposition is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields, often characterized as the primary bearer of truth or falsity.
Prosody (linguistics)
In linguistics, prosody is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but which are properties of syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm.
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Question mark
The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. Question and question mark are interrogative words and phrases.
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Question under discussion
In semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, a question under discussion (QUD) is a question which the interlocutors in a discourse are attempting to answer.
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Rhetorical question
A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information.
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Rising declarative
In linguistics, a rising declarative is an utterance which has the syntactic form of a declarative but the rising intonation typically associated with polar interrogatives.
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Sarah (chimpanzee)
Sarah (full name Sarah Anne) (August 1959 – July 2019) was an enculturated research chimpanzee whose cognitive skills were documented in the 1983 book The Mind of an Ape, by David Premack and Ann James Premack.
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Scientific method
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.
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Semantics
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. Question and Semantics are grammar.
Sentence function
In linguistics, a sentence function refers to a speaker's purpose in uttering a specific sentence, phrase, or clause.
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Set (mathematics)
In mathematics, a set is a collection of different things; these things are called elements or members of the set and are typically mathematical objects of any kind: numbers, symbols, points in space, lines, other geometrical shapes, variables, or even other sets.
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Socratic method
The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus or Socratic debate) is a form of argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Speech act
In the philosophy of language and linguistics, a speech act is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information but performs an action as well.
Squiggle operator
In formal semantics, the squiggle operator \sim is an operator that constrains the occurrence of focus.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Subject–auxiliary inversion
Subject–auxiliary inversion (SAI; also called subject–operator inversion) is a frequently occurring type of inversion in the English language whereby a finite auxiliary verb – taken here to include finite forms of the copula be – appears to "invert" (change places) with the subject.
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Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
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Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Question and syntax are grammar.
Tag question
A tag question is a construction in which an interrogative element is added to a declarative or an imperative clause.
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGELThe abbreviation CamGEL is less commonly used for the work than is CGEL, but the latter has also often been used for the earlier work A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language.) is a descriptive grammar of the English language.
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The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy is one of the major English encyclopedias of philosophy.
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Tunica language
The Tunica or Luhchi Yoroni (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron) language is a language isolate that was spoken in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valley in the United States by Native American Tunica peoples.
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Utterance
In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person.
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Washoe (chimpanzee)
Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition.
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Wh-movement
In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. Question and wh-movement are interrogative words and phrases.
World Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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Yes and no
Yes and no, or similar word pairs, are expressions of the affirmative and the negative, respectively, in several languages, including English.
Yes–no question
In linguistics, a yes–no question, also known as a binary question, a polar question, or a general question, is a question whose expected answer is one of two choices, one that provides an affirmative answer to the question versus one that provides a negative answer to the question. Question and yes–no question are grammar.
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See also
Interrogative words and phrases
- Eh
- Five Ws
- Indeterminate pronoun
- Interrogative
- Interrogative word
- Interrogatives in Esperanto
- Inverted question and exclamation marks
- Question
- Question mark
- Wh-movement
- Who (pronoun)
- Who, whom?
Sentences by type
- Atomic sentence
- Claim (philosophy)
- Cleft sentence
- Conditional sentence
- Contingency (philosophy)
- Nominal sentence
- Premise
- Question
- Ramsey sentence
- Sentence clause structure
- Statements
- Suggestion
- Tautology (language)
- Tautology (logic)
References
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