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Information Structure with Aidan Aannestad

Conlangery Podcast

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The Different Types of Question Words

The question word is what's at issue basically in a question. Many languages that have morphological focus marking will mark them as focused or can mark them asfocused. But in any case, it does seem to be that at least by the default, if not fundamentally, question words in content question sentences are inherently focused just the same way that their answer phrase in the response is focused.

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