Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Some General Assumptions 1
1.2 The Purpose of the Study 7
1.3 The Organization of the Book 9
Chapter 2 A Review of the Literature 11
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 A Brief Survey of the Literature 12
2.3 Conclusion 17
Chapter 3 Interrogatives in English 18
3.1 Types of Interrogatives in English and their Defining Properties 18
3.2 Direct and Indirect Questions 30
Chapter 4Interrogatives in Chinese 39
4.1 Types of Interrogatives in Chinese 39
4.2 Direct and Indirect Questions 59
5.1 Application of Subject-auxiliary Inversion in English 68
Chapter 5 Subject-auxiliary Inversion as a Means of Interrogation 68
5.2 Comparable Phenomena in Other Languages 78
Chapter 6 Question Particles as a Means of Interrogation 89
6.1 Question Particles in Chinese 89
6.2 Conditions on Question Particles 95
6.3 Comparable Particles in Other Languages 98
Chapter 7 Reduplication as a Means of Interrogation 110
7.1 The Nature of Chinese A-not-A Questions 110
7.2 Comparable Phenomena in Other Languages 131
Chapter 8 A Typological Generalization 137
8.1 Language Typology of Interrogatives 137
8.2 A Sharp Contrast between English and Chinese Interrogatives 153
8.3 The Complementary Relationship Between 161
Grammatical,Lexical and Phonological Means 161
Chapter 9 Conclusion 165
Bibliography 176