1.2.3.3. Content interrogatives without wh-signs

Exceptionally, wh-signs may not appear in content interrogatives, as in the following examples.

                      wh

a)         ix3 color

            โ€˜What color is it?โ€™

              wh

b)        time

            โ€˜What time is it?โ€™

                    wh

c)         ix2 year

            โ€˜How old are you?โ€™

                        wh

d)        ix3 face ix3

            โ€˜What does it look like?โ€™

(examples a-d recreated from Quer et al., 2005)