1.2.3. Content interrogatives

Content interrogatives are usually used to ask questions with question words such as who, what, where etc. Here and in the rest of the sub-sections of 1.2.3., the non-manual marker notation โ€œwhโ€ refers to the bundle of non-manual markers in content interrogatives.

 

                                    wh

poss2 teacher who

โ€˜Who is your teacher?โ€™

 

                    wh

where work ix2

โ€˜Where do you work?โ€™