Q-word
See also: q-word
English
Noun
- (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 [...]
- 2018, The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics (→ISBN), page 104:
- Alternative letter-case form of q-word (“any word beginning with q”)