| Name | Declarative-Question Construction (DECQ) | |
|---|---|---|
| Semantic function of cxn | Asking a question, often as an echo question or signaling surprise | |
| Form note | Rising intonation or <?> | |
| Slots | 1 | 2 |
| Syntactic function | Subj | PRED |
| Syntactic form | Vfin | |
| Example | Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States? | |
| Cxn with same formal pattern |
Declarative-Statement Construction
(Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States.)
same word order, but different intonation/punctuation |
|
| General cxn-type | Sentence-type Construction | |
| Literature | Herbst & Schüller (2008), Herbst & Hoffmann (2023) | |
| Annotators/Date | TRH/04/21F | |