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Yes/No-Question Construction

Name Yes/No-Question Construction (YNQU)
Semantic function of cxn Asking a question that can be answered by yes or no.
Form note Falling intonation or <?>
Slots 1 2 3
Syntactic function PREDop Subj PREDrest
Example Is Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States?
General cxn-type Sentence-type Construction
Literature Herbst & Schüller (2008), Herbst & Hoffmann (2023)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F