Q-word
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See also: q-word
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (linguistics) A question word.
- 2018, The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics, →ISBN, page 104:
- Cross-linguistically, a distinctive characteristic of this mood type is the presence of a question word (‘Q-word’) in the clause that queries missing information [...]
- Alternative letter-case form of q-word (“any word beginning with q”)