单词 | question word |
释义 | > as lemmasquestion word question word n. Linguistics a word used to introduce a question, esp. an interrogative pronoun. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > pronoun > [noun] > other specific types of pronoun relativec1400 demonstrative pronounc1525 question word1878 object pronoun1885 pronoun object1889 common-sex pronoun1922 non-personal1925 1878 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 9 33 Then follows the personal pronoun as subject, then the question-word proper, and then the verb. 1924 H. E. Palmer Gram. Spoken Eng. 263 In Direct Questions, the question-words are said to be interrogative; in Indirect Questions, they are said to be conjunctive. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct viii. 234 If the basic order of a language is SOV, it will usually have question words at the end of the sentence, and postpositions. < as lemmas |
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