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Name Wh-Question Construction (wh not subject) (WHQU)
Semantic function of cxn Asking an open question.
Form note Falling intonation or <?>
Slots 1 2 3 4
Syntactic function PREDwh PREDop Subj PREDrest
Example Where did they meet? How can we stop climate change?
General cxn-type Sentence-type Construction
Literature Herbst & Schüller (2008), Herbst & Hoffmann (2023)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F