The article considers the modal-semantic shades expressed by interrogative statements in Kazakh language, which are used to obtain not only certain information, but also express approval (consent), clarification, advice, indication, suggestion, comparison, attention (to cause a reaction), conclusion, justification, warning, permission, prohibition, refusal, objection, protest, coercion (concess...

Our study tackles Russian interrogative-relative pronouns ( wh -words) as a lexicographic type which requires unified treatment. objective is to give systematic description and explanation of the numerous collocational constructional properties -words using corpus methods. The dataset statistics were extracted from National Corpus, at least 100 examples for each analysed. Methodologically based...

Our paper addresses the following question: is there a general characterization, for all predicates P that take both declarative and interrogative complements (responsive predicates in Lahiri’s 2002 typology), of the meaning of the P-interrogative clause construction in terms of the meaning of the P-declarative clause construction? On our account, if P is a reponsive predicate and Q a question ...

This paper presents the results of a perception experiment designed to investigate the contribution of a pre-focal hesitation pause, delayed focal peak and a raised F0 range for signaling interrogative mode in Swedish. The results are consistent with a previous study which demonstrated that a delayed peak combined with a raised F0 range can effectively signal interrogative mode in Swedish echo ...

In this paper, we present a new approach to the syntax and semantics of wh-questions. On the basis of an appropriate type hierarchy whose members model contributions of lexical items to sentence mood, we introduce a head-interrogative schema that licences wh-sentences syntactically and contributes the semantic interrogative operator. This syntactic basis allows the compositional construction of...

Introduction To know the meaning of a declarative sentence is to know what the world should be like for the sentence to be true. To know the meaning of an interrogative sentence is to know what information is needed to resolve it. Like the meaning of a declarative sentence is equated with its truth-conditions—and identified with the set of worlds satisfying these conditions—the meaning of an in...

In (1), it is shown that believe can, but know cannot, license the entailment from x Vs the rumor that p to x Vs that p (Vendler 1972, Ginzburg 1995). As I will argue in detail below, in the standard assumption that know has a proposition-taking denotation, an additional stipulation will be needed to block whatever the mechanism that licenses the entailment of believe in the case of know. In th...

Many reordering approaches have been proposed for the statistical machine translation (SMT) system. However, the information about the type of source sentence is ignored in the previous works. In this paper, we propose a group of novel reordering models based on the source sentence type for Chinese-toEnglish translation. In our approach, an SVM-based classifier is employed to classify the given...

In this paper, we proposed to use the Fujisaki parameter to distinguish between declarative and interrogative intonation in Indonesian speech. Four combinations of Fujisaki parameter were selected as the features to distinguish between declarative and interrogative intonation. The first combination is only the amplitude of last accent command. The second combination consists of the amplitude of...