Interrogative expressions can be embedded (as wh-complements or indirect questions) into attitude contexts to form sentences that are declarative, as when someone is said to know, tell, care, or wonder who, what, whether, how, or why.
In a very recent study by Lee et al. (2014), it is found that even in the field of discourse analysis, the extended uses of what-based interrogative expressions in Chinese also present similar patterns as indicated in the conceptual space of Haspelmath (1997).
Perowne meets his eye and, with a self-deprecating, interrogative look, points across the road at University Street.
I assume that 85 may have a syntactic representation in 86, in which F is a coordinating conjunction that conjoins the interrogative in the external conjunct and the expression associated with the speech act in the internal conjunct.
Before I find the composure to take in the burning intensity of his expression, the smooth grey features and interrogative tilt of the head, reminiscent of an American eagle, my first impression is that Philip Roth looks as much like a Supreme Court judge on furlough as one of his country's most admired writers.
Moreover, languages often combine devices to express the same polar interrogative.
The regard is the look strapped with the interrogative.
There is, throughout, an attentively interrogative mood.
He said it Australian interrogative style.
Did some interrogative element enter her eyes, brightening the corneas?
Inversion, without interrogative intonation, is not infrequent in emphatic assertions.
