The consistent encoding may be ascribed to economic processing of interrogative moods at various sentential positions of the syntactic structures in languages or, more generally, to the overarching status of sentence mood in the semantic structure.
In other languages such as English and German the interrogative word of a content question usually appears in the initial position of the sentence.
In order to generate the surface structure of a polar interrogative the finite verb will then be moved to the sentence initial position.
The present study aimed to investigate whether during generation of the semantic structure of a polar interrogative, i.e., the processing preceding the grammatical formulation, the interrogative mood is encoded according to its position in the syntactic structure at distinctive time points in Chinese, German, and Polish.
In the experimental design the hand choice (left, right) was coupled with a propositional content (color, position) of the utterance and the execution decision (go, nogo) was coupled with the sentence mood (declarative, interrogative).
There is, throughout, an attentively interrogative mood.
He said it Australian interrogative style.
Instead, they recommend what's called interrogative self talk.
Did some interrogative element enter her eyes, brightening the corneas?
Inversion, without interrogative intonation, is not infrequent in emphatic assertions.
The Interrogative Mood: a Novel?, by Padgett Powell (Ecco; $21.99).
