Interrogative Words in the Languages of the World: a Typological Study

Student: Shikhantsova Kseniia

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

Current research is dedicated to wh-words in the languages of the world. The attention is mostly given to the languages of Russian region compared to the other languages of the world. Usually interrogative words are studied grammatically, not semantically. The main aim of this paper is to draw lines between different semantic categories and find similarities in the chosen languages. Ten categories such as entity, type, reason, location, material, manner, quantity, quality, choice, and time were identified. The analysis is based on Interrogative words: an exercise in lexical typology (Cysouw 2004). Also it is need to determinate how semantic categories relate to grammatical categories.

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